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21 February 2024 Correcting the Names of Two Haemogregarina spp. from Lizards in Egypt
Donald W. Duszynski, John R. Barta, Abdel-Azeem S. Abdel-Baki
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Abstract

Two haemogregarine “species” names, Haemogregarina tarentannulari and Haemogregarina rawashi, were cited by Saoud et al. (1995) as having been described by Mohammed and Ramadan (1996, in press). However, the paper by Mohammed and Ramadan (1996) was never published and, therefore, these names and their authorities must be suppressed because they violate Chapter 3 (Criteria for Publication), Article 8 (What Constitutes Published Work) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The following new names are introduced to replace them based on the Principle of Priority (Chapter 6, Article 23, 23.1, and Chapter 11, Article 51, Recommendation 51E): Hepatozoon rawashi (Mohammed and Ramadan in Saoud, Ramadan, Mohammed and Fawzi, 1995) n. comb., with gamonts in the erythrocytes and meronts in the lungs and liver of the fan-footed gecko, Ptyodactylus hasselquisiti (Donndorff, 1798) from Egypt, and Haemogregarina tarentannulari (Mohammed and Ramadan in Saoud, Ramadan, Mohammed and Fawzi, 1995), with gamonts in the erythrocytes and meronts in the lungs and liver of the white-spotted wall gecko, Tarentola annularis (St. Hilaire, 1827) also from Egypt. This latter species was determined to be a junior synonym of Haemogregarina annularis El-Naffar, Mandour, and Mohammed 1991, which was later reassigned to the genus Hepatozoon based on their phylogenetic analysis of 18S rDNA gene sequences.

Donald W. Duszynski, John R. Barta, and Abdel-Azeem S. Abdel-Baki "Correcting the Names of Two Haemogregarina spp. from Lizards in Egypt," Journal of Parasitology 110(1), 54-58, (21 February 2024). https://doi.org/10.1645/23-71
Published: 21 February 2024
KEYWORDS
blood parasite
Code violations
Haemogregarina
hemogregarines
Hepatozoon
ICZN
junior synonym
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