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Zootaxa 3296: 68 (2012) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ Correspondence ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2012 · Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Scleraspis nom. nov., replacement name for Pycnaspis Van Syoc & Dekelboum, 2011 ROBERT J. VAN SYOC & ALLEN M. DEKELBOUM Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr., San Francisco, CA 94118 [email protected] In the recently published revision of the barnacle family Oxynaspididae (Van Syoc & Dekelboum 2011), the genus name Pycnaspis was proposed for oxynaspidids with the following characteristics: scutum with shallow adductor muscle pit, lacking distinct ridge running from umbo to apex; tergum proximal to scutum and carina, without prominent projections on margins or raised bumps on surface; carina with surface smooth, basal end rounded, not forked. The name Pycnaspis is pre-occupied by an extinct genus of fish (Ørvig, 1958). Therefore, we propose the replacement new name Scleraspis (from the Greek, scler- hard, and aspi-, shield, scutum) for this genus of barnacles in the Oxynaspididae, with type species Oxynaspis connectens Broch, 1931. The authors thank Christian F. Kammerer for alerting us to the previous publication of the genus name Pycnaspis. Literature Cited Broch, H. (1931) Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen’s Pacific Expedition 1914–16. LVI. Indomalayan Cirripedia. (With 41 figures in the text.) Videnskabelige Meddelelser Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening, 91, 1–146. Ørvig, T. (1958) Pycnaspis splendens, new genus, new species, a new ostracoderm from the Upper Ordovician of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 108 (3391), 1–23. Van Syoc, R.J. & Dekelboum, A.M. (2011) Oxynaspididae (Crustacea, Cirripedia): phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, with descriptions of three new genera and six new species. Zootaxa, 3103, 1–32. 68 Accepted by D.S. Jones: 20 Mar. 2012; published: 1 May 2012.

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