Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda
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Neubauer, Thomas A.
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Harzhauser, Mathias
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Georgopoulou, Elisavet
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Mandic, Oleg
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Kroh, Andreas
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-04-04
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Theodoxus
(
Calvertia
)
brusinai
(
Pavlović, 1931
)
Neritodonta brusinai
Pavlović 1931: 27
, pl. 11, figs 21–32 [non
Neritina brusinai
Andrusov, 1909
].
Type locality.
Valley of Voljavča brook near Bresnica, Moravica,
Serbia
.
Age.
Pontian (= upper Messinian-lower Zanclean).
Holotype
.
Natural History Museum
,
Belgrade
, coll. no. 3301 (
Milošević 1962
, p. 29).
Discussion.
The status as a (secondary) homonym depends on the controversial generic and subgeneric affiliations of the involved species.
Pavlović (1931
, p. 27) introduced this species within the genus
Neritodonta
Brusina, 1884
(see also
Milošević 1962
). As stated above,
Neritodonta
is a junior synonym of
Calvertia
Bourguignat, 1880
, which is treated as a subgenus of
Theodoxus
(see also Wenz 1929, p. 2934). The older species was introduced as
Neritina brusinai
Andrusov, 1909
and newly combined as
Theodoxus
(
Ninnia
)
brusinai
by Wenz (1929, p. 2986). Therefore,
Theodoxus
(
Calvertia
)
brusinai
(
Pavlović, 1931
)
would be secondary homonym of
Theodoxus
(
Ninnia
)
brusinai
(
Andrusov, 1909
)
. However,
Ninnia
Brusina, 1902
was meanwhile elevated to genus level based on differences of shell and ontogeny (
Bandel 2001
, p. 128). A replacement name is thus not necessary at present.
Another
Theodoxus
species
formally constituting a secondary homonym is
Theodoxus
(
Calvertia
)
depressus
Taner, 1974
. The species-group name "
depressus
" in combination with
Theodoxus
is already in use for a taxon from the Pleistocene of Kos Island, introduced as "
Neritina Fuchsi
var.
depressa
" by
Magrograssi (1928)
and recombined as
Theodoxus doricus depressus
(
Magrograssi, 1928
)
by
Willmann (1981
, p. 149).
Wesselingh
et al.
(2008
, p. 865), however, consider the species described by
Taner (1974)
as junior synonym of
Theodoxus bukowskii
(
Oppenheim, 1919
)
, thus we refrain from introducing a replacement name.