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A replacement name for †Psammorhynchus Grande & Hilton, 2006 (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Lance Grande
Affiliation:
Division of Collections and Research, The Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605,
Eric J. Hilton
Affiliation:
Department of Fisheries Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062,

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In 2006, we (Grande & Hilton, 2006) described a well-preserved fossil sturgeon (Acipenseridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Montana and proposed the name †Psammorhynchus longipinnis Grande & Hilton for the new species. Through accidental discovery of an on-line taxonomic database of flatworms (Tyler et al., 2006) and subsequent investigation, we recently discovered that the genus-group name is preoccupied by Psammorhynchus Meixner, 1938 in Platyhelminthes (“Turbellaria”). Therefore, under Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), a replacement name is required for the junior homonym †Psammorhynchus Grande and Hilton.

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