New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics abstracts
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Oxyeurax and Hemipelex, new names for Oxyloma
and Hemimenia Gardner & Campbell, 2002, pre-occupied
(Mollusca: Bivalvia: Astartidae)
R. N. Gardner
19B Cheam Street
Dallington
Christchurch 8061, New Zealand
ron.gardner@paradise.net.nz
H. J. Campbell
GNS Science
PO Box 30368
Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand
The generic names Oxyloma and Hemimenia were used by
Gardner & Campbell (2002) for new genera of Jurassic Astartidae
bivalvia. These names have since been found to be junior homonyms of
the pulmonate Oxyloma Westerlund, 1885, in the family
Succineidae, and the solenogastre Hemimenia Nierstrasz, 1902,
the type of the family Hemimeniidae.
To resolve these homonyms, we propose Oxyeurax
n. gen. (gender feminine) for Oxyloma Gardner & Campbell,
2002, non Westerlund, 1885, with Oxyloma laticostata
Gardner & Campbell, 2002, as type species, and Hemipelex n.
gen. (gender feminine) for Hemimenia Gardner & Campbell,
2002, non Nierstrasz, 1902, with Hemimenia latifalcata
Gardner & Campbell, 2002 as type species.
G07021; Online publication date 10 October 2007; Received and
accepted 27 August 2007
New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics, 2007, Vol. 50:
365
0028–8306/07/5004–0365 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007
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