The Commission has conserved the generic name Heterolaophonte Lang, 1948 for a group of marine harpacticoid copepods (family laophontidae) by giving it precedence over the unused senior names Mesolaophonte Nicholls, 1941 and Monolaophonte Nicholls, 1941 whenever these names are considered to be synonyms.
Heterolaophonte Lang, 1948 (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida): name conserved by precedence over Mesolaophonte Nicholls, 1941 and Monolaophonte Nicholls, 1941," The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67(2), 188-189, (1 June 2010). https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v67i2.a13