Theodoxus militaris jurisicpolsakae, Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Kroh, Andreas, Elisavet, Georgopoulou & Mandic, Oleg, 2014

Neubauer, Thomas A., Harzhauser, Mathias, Kroh, Andreas, Elisavet, Georgopoulou & Mandic, Oleg, 2014, Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda. Part 2, ZooKeys 429, pp. 13-46 : 14

Taxon classification Animalia ORDO FAMILIA

Theodoxus militaris jurisicpolsakae nom. n.

Theodoxus (Theodoxus) militaris oblongus Jurišić-Polšak, 1979: 28, pl. 10, fig. 2 [non Neritina leobersdorfensis oblonga Handmann, 1887].

Etymology.

In honor of Zlata Jurišić-Polšak (Croatian Natural History Museum), who contributed to our knowledge of Neogene Neritidae .

Type locality.

Malino, Croatia.

Age.

Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene (" Paludina Beds").

Syntypes.

Croatian Natural History Museum, coll. no. 9454.

Discussion.

Handmann (1887, p. 9) described and figured Neritina leobersdorfensis var. oblonga from the Late Miocene of the Vienna Basin and made it thus available as species-group name (published before 1961, see ICZN 1999, Articles 45 and 57.1). The subspecific status was maintained by Papp (1953, p. 99), who recombined the species with Theodoxus . Although Jurišić-Polšak (1979) mentioned that species and cited both works in her study about Miocene and Pliocene neritids from Croatia, she established the name oblongus for a different species-group taxon in Theodoxus . Thereby she referred to a determination by Spiridion Brusina, who had established the name " Neritina militaris var. oblonga" for material in the collection but never published it. Jurišić-Polšak accepted this "in schedis"-determination and formally described the subspecies, obviously unaware of the fact that this would create a secondary homonym. It can be separated from the nominal species by the more elevated spire and the fewer axial ribs.