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Mclearnia Crickmay, 1930 (Bivalvia: Pectinidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

S. R. A. Kelly
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, England
A. V. Dhondt
Affiliation:
Koninklijk Belgisch Institut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Vautierstraat, 29, B-1040, Brussels, Belgium
V. A. Zakharov
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Novosibirsk 90, USSR 630090

Extract

In revising the subgenus Mclearnia Crickmay (1930), Kelly, Dhondt and Zakharov (1984) recommended that the spelling of the subgenus and species should be emended to Maclearnia maclearni. The latter authors had followed Recommendation III 21(a) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (Stoll, 1964, p. 109), but this recommendation should be followed only in the formation of new names and not in revision of old names. Thus the emended name Maclearnia maclearni is unjustified and falls into the category of Article 33(ii) of the Code (Stoll, 1964, p. 37), becoming automatically a junior objective synonym of Mclearnia mclearni. The full revised name thus becomes Camptonectes (Mclearnia) mclearni (Crickmay, 1930).

Type
Taxonomic Note
Copyright
Copyright © The Journal of Paleontology 

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