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Issue: Vol. 4728 No. 1: 21 Jan. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-01-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.1.9
Page range: 149–149
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Suggestion of Spongia (Heterofibria) peddemorsi as replacement name for
Spongia (Heterofibria) cooki Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019 

Department of Environmental Affairs, Oceans & Coasts Branch, Oceans and Coasts Research Chief Directorate, Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Directorate, Private Bag X2, Roggebaai, 8012, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. 2Faculty of Science, Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa. Department of Biodiversity and Conservation, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Natural Resources and the Environment, Coastal Systems research group, King George V (5th) avenue, Durban, 4000, South Africa .
Department of Environmental Affairs, Oceans & Coasts Branch, Oceans and Coasts Research Chief Directorate, Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Directorate, Private Bag X2, Roggebaai, 8012, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.
Porifera

Abstract

Rob Van Soest (pers. communication) remarked that Spongia (Heterofibria) cooki Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019 is a junior primary homonym of Spongia vermiculata cookii Hyatt, 1877, now accepted as Spongia (Spongia) cookii Hyatt, 1877. Following the ICZN (art. 57.2, art. 58.14 [regarding -ii and -i], ICZN 1999) the published species name (Samaai et al. 2019) is unavailable and we now suggest replacing the name with Spongia (Heterofibria) peddemorsi following art. 60, ICZN (1999). The holotype is deposited into the collection at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, SAM-A24791, for further collection data see Samaai et al. 2019.

 

References

  1. Samaai, T., Pillay, R. & Janson, L. (2019) Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. Zootaxa, 4587 (1), 1–85.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1

    ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, xxix + 306 pp. [http://iczn.org]