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Record # 20525
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Title
Journal
Dendy A (1911)
Geoplana aucklandica and Geoplana marrineri: a Correction in Nomenclature.
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Vol 43: 100.

Abstract / Notes

"In my article “On Land Planarians from Auckland and Enderby Islands,” in the “Subantarctic Islands of New
Zealand” (Wellington, N.Z., 1909), I have described a new species from Auckland Island under the name
Geoplana aucklandica, having overlooked the fact that I had myself eight years previously given this name to
a totally different species from a widely separated locality—viz., Auckland, in the North Island of New
Zealand.

I now desire to rectify this error by proposing a new specific name for the subantarctic form from Auckland
Island, and I suggest that it be called Geoplana marrineri, in acknowledgment of the services rendered to the
study of zoology in New Zealand by my late friend and assistant, George R. Marriner."

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