Aneesh, P.T., A.K. Helna, A.B. Kumar & B.A. Venmathi Maran. (2024). Hirodaiidae a replacement name for the unavailable family-group name Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh, Helena, Kumar and Maran, 2023 (Crustacea: Copepoda: Cyclopoida). Journal of Natural History. 58(37-40):1491-1492.

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10.1080/00222933.2024.2387793 [view]

Aneesh, P.T., A.K. Helna, A.B. Kumar & B.A. Venmathi Maran

2024

58(37-40):1491-1492.

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The family-group name Uranoscopicolaidae Aneesh et al., (2023) was recently proposed in the order Cyclopoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) for its type and only genus Hirodai Aneesh, Helna, Kumar and Maran, 2023 (type species by original designation: Hirodai ohtsukai Aneesh et al. 2023). According to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999) Art. 11.7.1.1, a family-group name must be formed from the stem of an available generic name, then used as valid in the new family-group taxon. If proposed after 1999, it must also be accompanied by the explicit citation of the name of the type genus (ie the name from which the family-group name is formed) (ICZN Art. 16.2). Aneesh et al. (2023, p. 1497) explicitly cited Hirodai as the type genus of the new family name but erroneously based the latter on the stem ‘Uranoscopicola’ to which the suffix -idae was added. The generic name ‘Uranoscopicola’ is not only unavailable (it was never proposed for a zoological taxon), the nominal genus-group taxon it could have denoted if it had been proposed as valid, was not originally included and can therefore not be fixed as the type of the new family taxon. In order to resolve this ambiguity, we propose the replacement name Hirodaiidae fam. n. as an explicitly new family-group name taking the current authorship and date. The new family is proposed for its type and sole genus, Hirodai, and its diagnosis coincides with that of the type genus given by Aneesh et al. (2023, p. 1497).

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