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Novocrania^ a new name for the genus 

 Neocrania Lee & Brunton, 1986 (Brachiopoda, 

 Craniida), preoccupied by Neocrania Davis, 

 1978 (Insecta, Lepidoptera) 



DAPHNE E. LEE 



Department of Geology. Uixiversity of Otago, Box 56, Diinedm. New Zealand 



C. H. C. BRUNTON 



Department of Palaeontology, The Natural Histoiy Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD 



David Campbell has brought to our attention (personal communica- 

 tion 9 March 2000) that the generic name Neocrania Lee & Brunton, 

 1986 (Brachiopoda, Craniida) is preoccupied by an insect (Lepidop- 

 tera) genus published by Davis, 1978. According to Article 60 of the 

 ICZN rules, we here propose Novocrania (from the Latin, noviis. 

 new, young, recent, and Crania, the name given by Retzius, 1781 ) as 

 replacement name for Neocrania Lee & Brunton, 1986, non 

 Neocrania Davis, 1978. As required for a replacement name, the 

 type species remains Crania anomala Miiller, 1776, as in the pre- 

 occupied original genus. 



REFERENCES 



Davis, D.R. 1978. A Revision of the North American moths of the Superfamily 

 Eriocranioidea with the proposal of a new family, Acanthopleroetelidae (Lepidop- 

 tera). Smithsimiun Coinrihiitioiu lo Zoology. 251: 131 pp. 



International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. Inlemational Code 

 (>t Zoiilatiical NdincncUinirc'. 4th edilion. International Trust for Zoological Nomen- 

 clature. London. .^06 pp. 



Lee, D.E. & Brunton, C.H.C. 1986. Neocrania n.gen., and a revision of Cretaceous- 

 Recent brachiopod genera in the family Craniidae. Bulletin of the British Museum 

 {Natural HislonI Geology, 40 (4): 141-160. 



Reeve, L. 1862. Monograph of Crania. Conchologica Iconica. 13: 3 pp., 1 pi. 



Acknowledgements. We thank David Campbell, University of North 

 Carolina at Chapel Hill, for bringing the homonymy to our attention, and 

 Professor John Barsby, University of Otago, for discussions on nomenclaturai 

 problems. 



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Figs 1, 2 Novocrania anomala (Muller). 1, from the North Atlantic, NHM ZB 124/23, Cuming Collection: previously figured by Reeve ( 1 862: pi. 1 , fig. 

 4); interior of dorsal valve showing the impressions of mantle canals and muscle scars, including the antero-median brachial protractor scars. 2a, b, from 

 Knahaken, Oresund. Denmark, from waters probably close to those from which Muller's original material was found: NHM ZB .3955: 2a, interior of 

 dorsal valve showing the muscle scars; 2b, attached ventral valve with soine mantle tissue remaining, showing the mantle canal and the posterior and 

 anterior muscle scars. All figures x 3. 



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