Ogeramua, a new name for the land snail genus Papuanella Clench &amp; Turner, 1959 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Camaenidae), preoccupied by Papuanella Distant, 1914 (Insecta)

Carl C. Christensen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.678.13468

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Ogeramua, a new name for the land snail genus Papuanella Clench & Turner, 1959 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Camaenidae), preoccupied by Papuanella Distant, 1914 (Insecta)

Carl C. Christensen^‡

‡ Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, United States of America

Corresponding author: Carl C. Christensen ( carl@bishopmuseum.org )

Academic editor: Thierry Backeljau

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Citation: Christensen CC (2017) Ogeramua, a new name for the land snail genus Papuanella Clench & Turner, 1959 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Camaenidae), preoccupied by Papuanella Distant, 1914 (Insecta). ZooKeys 678: 155-156. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.678.13468

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E1EF5A82-57EB-48D0-B7AF-B926C074BF83

Keywords

Camaenidae , zoological nomenclature, homonymy, Papua New Guinea, Papuanella , Ogeramua

Results

The genus Papuanella (type species Geotrochus ogeramuensis Kobelt, 1914, by original designation) was established by Clench and Turner (1959: 5) for two species of land snails inhabiting the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Papuanella is currently recognized as a valid genus within the subfamily Papuininae of the family Camaenidae (Schileyko 2003).

Distant (1914: 352) established Papuanella for a genus of fulgorid homopterans also inhabiting the island of New Guinea, and thus Clench and Turner’s taxon is a junior homonym in need of replacement. Accordingly, pursuant to Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999), the name Ogeramua, nom. n., is here proposed as a replacement name for Papuanella Clench & Turner, 1959 (non Papuanella Distant, 1914). Species included in the genus as defined by Clench and Turner (1959) are O. ogeramuensis (Kobelt, 1914), comb. n., and O. finisterrensis (Kobelt, 1914), comb. n.

The epithet Ogeramua is named for Ogeramua, Papua New Guinea, the type locality of its type species, and is to be treated as feminine in gender.

Acknowledgements

This work is Contribution 2017-002 of Bishop Museum’s Pacific Biological Survey.

References

Clench WJ, Turner RD (1959) Two new genera of land molluscs (Papuininae) from the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 1(3): 4–9.

Distant WL (1914) Report on the Rhynchota collected by the Wollaston Expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Transactions of the Zoological Society, London 20: 335–362, pl. 34. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1912.tb07839.x

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4^th edn.). International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.

Kobelt W (1914) Diagnosen neuer Arten aus Neuguinea. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 46: 3–8.

Schileyko AA (2003) Treatise on Recent terrestrial pulmonate molluscs. Part 11. Trigonochlamydidae, Papillodermidae, Vitrinidae, Limacidae, Bielziidae, Agriolimacidae, Boettgerillidae, Camaenidae. Ruthenica Supplement 2: 1467–1626.