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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2014-05-27
Page range: 400–400
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New substitute name for the genus Dayus Steiner & Amaral, 1999 (Annelida: Polychaeta: Histriobdellidae)

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Anshun University, Anshun, Guizhou, P. R. China, 561000 Special and Key Laboratory of Functional Materials and Resource Chemistry of Guizhou Provincial Education Department, Anshun University, Anshun, Guizhou, P. R. China, 561000
Dayus Histriobdellidae Polychaeta Annelida

Abstract

The annelid genus Dayus was established by Steiner and Amaral (1999) for a single species Stratiodrilus cirolanae Führ, 1971 from South Africa. Nevertheless the genus name Dayus is preoccupied and was initially introduced by Mahmood (1967) for a typhlocybine leafhopper genus with Dayus elongatus Mahmood, 1967 as the type species from Singapore (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). Thus, the genus Dayus Steiner & Amaral, 1999 is a junior homonym of the genus Dayus Mahmood, 1967. According to Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), I propose the new replacement name Steineridrilus nom. nov. for Dayus Steiner & Amaral, 1999. The resulting nomenclatural changes are summarized below.