New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Rectification of nomenclature for Melagraphia aethiops (Gmelin) and Diloma bicanaliculata (Dunker) (Mollusca: Trochidae)

R. C. Willan*

B. A. Marshall

and

F. M. Climo

National Museum of New Zealand, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand

and

W. O. Cernohorsky

Auckland Institute and Museum, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract Alterations to nomenclature for two common intertidal New Zealand 'top shells' necessitated by re-examination of type material have been confused by ambiguities in the way the alterations were first presented. We draw attention to recent misinterpretations and clarify the nomenclature. Condensed synonymies that indicate names used for each species during the interregnum are given, allowing papers dealing with these trochids to be read without uncertainty as to which species were really meant by the authors.

Keywords Trochidae; Melagraphia aethiops; Diloma bicanaliculata; nomenclature.

New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 1980, 14(4): 413-415
Received 29 July 1980; revision recieved 19 August 1980

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