Oloughlinia Kroh, Gaudin & Reich, 2022

Kroh, Andreas, Gaudin, Jimmy & Reich, Mike, 2022, Oloughlinia, a replacement name for Clarkiella Heding in Heding & Panning 1954 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Sclerodactylidae), Zootaxa 5178 (4), pp. 397-399 : 398

Genus Oloughlinia Kroh, Gaudin & Reich, 2022 nom. nov.

= homonym Clarkiella Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954 non Lambert, 1916

(pro Clarkiella Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954, p. 119, non Lambert, 1916, p. 169 [ Echinoidea: Faujasiidae ])

Synonymy:

non 1916 Clarkiella —Lambert, p. 169.

non 1953 Genus Clarkiella Lambert —Cooke, p. 18.

1954 Gattung Clarkiella Heding —Heding & Panning, p. 119.

1956 Clarkiella gen. nov. … Heding & Panning—Clark, p. 13.

1966 Clarkiella Heding & Panning 1954 —Edwards & Hopwood, p. 58.

2017 Clarkiella —Martins, p. 18.

2022 Genus Clarkiella Heding , in Heding & Panning, 1954 —Martins & Tavares, p. 569.

Type species: Clarkiella discoveryi Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954, pp. 119–120 is designated as type species of Oloughlinia Kroh, Gaudin & Reich, 2022 nom. nov. here, following recommendation 60A of the Code.

Gender: feminine

Etymology: named after Peter Mark O’Loughlin (Museum Victoria), in acknowledgement of his extensive research on dendrochirote sea cucumbers.

Species Oloughlinia deichmannae ( O’Loughlin, 2009) nov. comb. —southern Indian Ocean.

Species Oloughlinia discoveryi (Heding in Heding & Panning, 1954) nov. comb. —South Atlantic Ocean.