Open AccessImbriea nom. nov., a replacement name for Orthopleura Imbrie, 1959 (Brachiopoda)
Author(s) -
Brian H. Reily
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zootaxa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1175-5334
pISSN - 1175-5326
DOI - 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.1.9
Subject(s) - homonym (biology) , international code of zoological nomenclature , biology , synonym (taxonomy) , taxon , genus , type species , subfamily , nomenclature , zoology , type (biology) , devonian , taxonomy (biology) , paleontology , biochemistry , gene
The genus Orthopleura Imbrie, 1959 (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonelliformea: Strophomenata: Orthotetida: Orthotetidina: Chilidiopsoidea: Areostrophiidae: Areostrophiinae, following the classification of Kaesler & Selden 1997–2007) was erected to contain three species of extinct brachiopods from Devonian deposits in the United States. Orthopleura rhipis Imbrie, 1959 was assigned as the type species at time of erection. Streptorhynchus flabellum Whitfield, 1882, Schuchertella orthoplicata Stainbrook, 1943, and two undescribed species, “Orthopleura sp. A” and “Orthopleura sp. B”, were treated as congeneric (Imbrie 1959). However, Orthopleura Imbrie, 1959 is a junior homonym of Orthopleura Spinola, 1845 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cleridae), the latter being the type genus of the subfamily Orthopleurinae Böving & Craighead, 1931: 56 (see also Opitz 2017 on the validity of this name), The aforementioned usage for the brachiopod taxon must be rejected because the name is not available per Article 60 of The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999, and henceforth “the Code”). The rejected junior homonym has no known available and potentially valid synonym and must be replaced by a new substitute name.