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Issue: Vol. 2782 No. 1: 3 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2782.1.4
Page range: 67–68
Abstract views: 40
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Nomenclatural note: Heteropathes (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia: Cladopathidae): A new name for Heliopathes Opresko, 2003

U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Coelenterata Cnidaria Anthozoa Antipatharia Cladopathidae

Abstract

The generic name Heliopathes Opresko, 2003 (see also Opresko 2005) proposed for an antipatharian coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) of the family Cladopathidae, subfamily Hexapathinae (Opresko, 2003), is preoccupied by the darkling beetle genus Heliopathes (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), proposed by Mulsant (1854). Therefore the substitute name Heteropathes is proposed for the antipatharian.

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