Research & Reviews: Journal of Zoological Sciences
Menue-ISSN: 2321-6190 p-ISSN: 2347-2294
e-ISSN: 2321-6190 p-ISSN: 2347-2294
National Institute of Carpology (Gaertnerian Institution), 21 Konenkowa Street, Moscow-127560, Russia
Received date: 21/03/2016 Accepted date: 25/04/2016 Published date: 27/04/2016
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The genus Disparella (D. fusiformis Fedorov, 1987, by original designation) was established in Fedorov and Pereladov for distinctive fossil spiculae of sponges from North-Eastern Siberia of Cambrian age. However, Hessler, a living isopod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Isopoda: Asellota: Desmosomatidae), preceded fossil generic name, which becomes a preoccupied later homonym. The isopod Disparella is well recognized in modern zoology and in current use, and in this connection a new generic designation is necessary for later homonymic fossil genus. To resolve homonymy, in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Kuonamia nom. nov. (Type species Disparella fusiformis Fedorov, 1987) is here proposed as a replacement name for Disparella Fedorov non Hessler.
Fossil, Isopod
Phylum Porifera Grant 1836
Class Hexactinellida Schmidt 1870
Order Lyssakida Zittel 1877
Genus Kuonamia nom. nov. (=Disparella Fedorov, 1987 non Hessler 1970)
Type species: K. (Disparella) fusiformis (Fedorov, 1987) comb. nov.
Diagnosis: see Fedorov (in Fedorov and Pereladov, 1987: 42, Tab. 13, Figs 3-9).
Stratum typicum: Middle Cambrian (Kuonamian suite).
Locus typicus: Kjuljanka River, North-Eastern Siberia, Yakutia, Russian Federation.
Etymology: for the name of Kuonamian regional suite of Middle Cambrian.