Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda
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Neubauer, Thomas A.
Author
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
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2014-04-04
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Theodoxus pseudodacicus
nom. nov.
Theodoxus
(
Theodoxus
)
dacicus
Pană 2003: 301
, pl. 1, figs 7–8 [non
Theodoxus dacicus
Jekelius, 1944
].
Etymology.
To denote that this species is not
Theodoxus dacicus
.
Type locality.
Vintilă Vodă in Slănic valley,
Buzău
,
Romania
.
Age.
Lower Romanian (= Sienisian, upper Zanclean).
Holotype
.
Laboratory of Paleontology
,
Bucharest
, coll. no. 623, L.
P. B.
III g.
Discussion.
This species was introduced by
Pană (2003)
for a Pliocene taxon from the Dacian Basin. It is a primary homonym of
Theodoxus dacicus
Jekelius, 1944
(p. 114), a different species described from the Late Miocene of Soceni in the Pannonian Basin. The Miocene species was classified by
Papp (1953
, p. 99) as a subspecies of
T. leobersdorfensis
(
Handmann, 1887
)
.
When introducing this species
Pană (2003)
referred to it as "
Theodoxus (Theodoxus) dacicus
n. sp.
Pană 1989
". This leads to some confusion, since she properly described and illustrated the taxon and indicated a
holotype
in 2003, but gave no reference to a work from 1989. The only publication from
Pană (1989)
known to us deals with different taxa. Maybe she introduced the name (as
nomen nudum
) in an unpublished thesis.