Sokolovisyrinx, a new name for Sokolovites Kozłowski, 1967 (Pogonophora)
preoccupied by Sokolovites Casey, 1966 (Mollusca, Ammonoidea)
PIOTR MIERZEJEWSKI and CYPRIAN KULICKI
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 2003, 48, 2, 260
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Kozłowski (1967)proposed the genus and species name Sokolovites pogonophoroides
for a new organic microfossil from the Ordovician glacial boulder of Baltic
origin and assigned it tentatively to the Pogonophora (see Mierzejewski 1986).
Recently, we found that the name Sokolovites is preoccupied: Casey
(1966)described an ammonite from the Lower Albian of the former U.S.S.R., and
assigned it the name Sokolovites Casey, 1966. In this situation, according to
the Article 53 and Article 60 of the current edition of the ICZN (International
Code of Zoological Nomenclature 1999), the name of the alleged pogonophoran
becomes a junior homonym, and it must be rejected and replaced. Therefore, we
propose the replacement name Sokolovisyrinx. The new generic name, like the
previous one, derives from the name of B.S. Sokolov, an eminent Russian
geologist and palaeontologist; the suffix - syrinx is the Latin and Greek for
"pipe-like objects'.
References
Casey, R. 1966. A monograph of the Ammonoidea of the Lower Greensand, Part VII, 547-582.
Palaeontological Society Monographs, London.
ICZN 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Fourth Edition. 306 pp.
International Trust of Zoological Nomenclature, c/o The Natural History Museum, London.
Kozłowski, R. 1967. Sur certains fossiles a test organique. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
12: 99-132.
Mierzejewski, P.1986. Ultrastructure, taxonomy and affinities of some Ordovician and
Silurian organic microfossils. Palaeontologia Polonica 47: 129-220.
