Rhipidogyridae Koby, 1905

Doweld, Alexander B., 2014, Starostinia, a new generic replacement name for Ironella Starostina & Krasnov, 1970 (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Rhipidogyridae) non Cobb, 1920 (Nematoda: Ironidae), Zootaxa 3815 (2), pp. 299-300 : 299-300

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6132188
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scientific name	Rhipidogyridae Koby, 1905
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Family Rhipidogyridae Koby, 1905 View in CoL

Genus Starostinia View in CoL gen. nov. (= Ironella Starostina & Krasnov, 1970 non Cobb, 1920)

Type species: Starostina giseldonensis View in CoL ( Starostina & Krasnov, 1970) comb. nov. (= Ironella giseldonensis Starostina & Krasnov, 1970: 79, tab. 5, fig. 2). Locus classicus: Gizel’don river, Northern Osetia, Russian Federation; Upper Jurassic (Tithonian); holotype 1/50 [Sevkavgeologija].

Diagnosis: see Starostina & Krasnov (1970: 79).

Generic stratigraphy and palaeogeography: Upper Jurassic (Tithonian)-Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian) — Lower Kimmeridgean of Romania [ Roniewicz, 1976], Tithonian of N Caucasus (N Osetia, Russia) ( Starostina & Krasnov, 1970) and Polish Carpathians ( Morycowa, 2012); Albian of Transcaucasus (W Georgia) ( Sikharulidze, 1979), Valanginian of Slovenia ( Turnšek & Buser, 1974; Turnšek, 1997), Oxfordian of Saudi Arabia ( El-Asa’ad, 1991).

Generic circumscription: 4 species:

Starostinia giseldonensis ( Starostina & Krasnov, 1970) comb. nov. (= Ironella giseldonensis Starostina & Krasnov, 1970);

Starostinia rutimeyeri (Koby, 1889) comb. nov. (= Heterocoenia rutimeyeri Koby, 1889 );

Starostinia tskhanariensis ( Sikharulidze, 1979) comb. nov. (= Ironella tskhanariensis Sikharulidze, 1979 );

Starostinia . arabica ( El-Asa’ad, 1991) comb. nov. (= Ironella arabica El-Asa’ad, 1991).