Notes on Homalogastra similis nom. nov. (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), a replacement name for the junior homonym Homalogastra binucleata Liu et al., 2020

Mingjian Liu; Chundi Wang; Xiaozhong Hu; Zhishuai Qu; Limin Jiang; Saleh A Al-Farraj; Hamed A El-Serehy; Alan Warren; Weibo Song

doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125841

Notes on Homalogastra similis nom. nov. (Ciliophora, Scuticociliatia), a replacement name for the junior homonym Homalogastra binucleata Liu et al., 2020

Eur J Protistol. 2021 Oct:81:125841. doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125841. Epub 2021 Sep 4.

Authors

Mingjian Liu¹, Chundi Wang¹, Xiaozhong Hu², Zhishuai Qu³, Limin Jiang¹, Saleh A Al-Farraj⁴, Hamed A El-Serehy⁴, Alan Warren⁵, Weibo Song⁶

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; College of Fisheries, and Key Laboratory of Mariculture of the Education Ministry of China, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
² Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China; College of Fisheries, and Key Laboratory of Mariculture of the Education Ministry of China, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. Electronic address: xiaozhonghu@ouc.edu.cn.
³ Division of Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
⁴ Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
⁶ Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. Electronic address: wsong@ouc.edu.cn.

PMID: 34624790
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2021.125841

Abstract

We recently established a new species, Homalogastra binucleata, with a morphological description and phylogenetic analyses based on SSU rRNA gene sequence data (Liu et al., 2020). Helmut Berger (Salzburg, Austria) commented that Homalogastra binucleata Liu et al., 2020 is a junior primary homonym of H. binucleata Song, 1993, the latter having been transferred to the genus Uronemita by Liu et al. (2016). According to article 57.2 of the ICZN (1999), the junior primary homonym, Homalogastra binucleata Liu et al., 2020, is permanently invalid. It is replaced by Homalogastra similis nom. nov.

Keywords: Biodiversity; Ciliated protozoa; Ciliature; Nomenclature.

MeSH terms

Ciliophora* / genetics
Microsporidia*
Oligohymenophorea*
Phylogeny