Lepeophtheirus madagascaricus, Kakui & Uyeno, 2020

Kakui, Keiichi & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2020, New replacement name for a homonym in Lepeophtheirus (Crustacea: Copepoda Caligidae), Zootaxa 4852 (1), pp. 143-144 : 143-144

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4476026
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E24C878B-FF8E-FFE9-FF58-A7E2FB0FFEFD
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lepeophtheirus madagascaricus
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

Lepeophtheirus madagascaricus nom. nov.

Dentigryps longicauda Cressey, 1966 , 91–94, figs 1–13.

Lepeophtheirus longicauda: Hewitt 1971 , 333.

Lepeophtheirus longicaudus: Walter & Boxshall 2018 [not ‘published’ in the sense of the Code].

Etymology. The new species-group name is an adjective. This name is after its type locality, Madagascar ( Cressey 1966).

Type series. Holotype female ( USNM 113048) and four paratype females ( USNM 113049) in alcohol, originally deposited in the United States National Museum ( Cressey 1966) and currently housed in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, Maryland, USA.

Remarks. The morphological description and illustrations were presented in Cressey (1966).