Demecquenemia, Kostopoulos & Bernor, 2011
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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/g2011n4a6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5465229 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EE374D-574C-C94E-FF41-F9AEFCE5FB7C |
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Marcus |
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scientific name |
Demecquenemia |
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gen. nov. |
Genus Demecquenemia n. gen.
TYPE SPECIES. — Demecquenemia rodleri ( Pilgrim & Hopwood, 1928) n. comb.
ETYMOLOGY. — Dedicated to R. de Mecquenem, one of the Maragheh pioneers.
DIAGNOSIS. — As for the single known species.
TAXONOMIC OVERVIEW
Rodler & Weithofer (1890) described a frontlet from Maragheh (NHMW A4898) as a new species, Gazella capricornis , to which Mecquenem (1925) assigned later several specimens from the same area, now in MNHN.F. Pilgrim & Hopwood (1928) were the first authors to point out that “ Gazella capricornis ” from Maragheh is a different species from Gazella capricornis from Pikermi, and proposed referring the Maragheh bovid to a new species, Gazella rodleri . Pilgrim (1939) suggested affiliations of G. rodleri with Oioceros Gaillard, 1902 , an idea rejected by Gentry (1970) but adopted by Solounias (1981). Korotkevich (1976) ascribed to this species a rich sample from Belka ( Ukraine) and she assigned it to a new subgenus Procapra (Vetaprocapra) rodleri , the type species of which is Antilope capricornis Wagner, 1848 . Bernor (1978) refers to the species as Gazella rodleri but Bouvrain (1996) explicitly excluded it from Gazella . Gentry & Heizman (1996) challenged once again its generic attribution and provisionally allocated it to Hispanodorcas Thomas, Morales & Heintz, 1982 .
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