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Issue: Vol. 4013 No. 1: 7 Sept. 2015
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.10
Page range: 139–142
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 2

Nomenclatural changes in two families of asellote isopods (Acanthaspidiidae and Ischnomesidae)

Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia.
Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Vic. 3001, Australia.
Isoptera Acanthaspidiidae Ischnomesidae Iolanthe Acanthaspidia Acanthoniscus Ischnomesus synonym replacement name

Abstract

Iolanthe Beddard, 1886a is shown to be a senior synonyn of Acanthaspidia Stebbing, 1893, the replacement name for the preoccupied Acanthoniscus Sars, 1879 (Isopoda: Asellota: Acanthaspidiidae). Ischnomesus kussakini nom. nov. is erected as a replacement name for Ischnomesus antarcticus (Kussakin, 1982), preoccupied in this combination (Isopoda: Asellota: Ischnomesidae).