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Echinolampas laubei (Echinoidea), a replacement name for Echinolampas duncani McNamara, 1987

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

Kenneth J. McNamara
Kenneth J. McNamara*
Affiliation:
Western Australian Museum, Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia
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The name Echinolampas duncani McNamara, 1987 (McNamara, 1987, p. 109-110, fig. 1A-C) was given to a Miocene cassiduloid echinoid species from Australia. J. Roman (Institut de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France) has kindly alerted me to the fact that this name is already occupied by Echinolampas duncani Cotteau, 1891 (Cotteau, 1891, p. 162). Cotteau proposed this name as a replacement for Echinolampas obesa Duncan and Sladen, 1884, which was a junior homonym of Echinolampas obesus Bittner, 1880. The recently described Australian species is therefore a junior homonym of Echinolampas duncani Cotteau, 1891. Consequently a new name, Echinolampas laubei, is proposed as a replacement for Echinolampas duncani McNamara, 1987. It is named after G. C. Laube, in honor of his pioneering work on the Miocene echinoid faunas of Australia.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , March 1989 , pp. 257
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