HAMAMLIA, A REPLACEMENT NAME FOR THE FIMBRIID BIVALVE GENUS CERKESIA MONARI NON MOISEEV

this note concerns a case of homonymy involving the genus Cerkesia Monari, 2003 (Fimbriidae, Bivalvia), which was instituted based on material from Kimmeridgian shallow-marine limestones in the western Pontides, Turkey (Monari 2003, p. 859). Recently, I discovered that Moiseev (1944, p. 24) had proposed the same name for a stromatoporoidean genus from the Upper Triassic of the Caucasus, the type species being Cerkesia robinsoni Moiseev, 1944 (p. 25, pl. 3, fig. 1a–c; see also Thomas 1963, p. 22; Edwards and Vevers 1975, p. 60). To remove this homonymy, the name of the fimbriid genus is substituted here by Hamamlia nom. nov., the type species being Hamamlia contiae (Monari 2003) as originally diagnosed (p. 862, pl. 1, figs 1–15, text-figs 2–4). The new name is after Hamamli, a village near the type locality. REFERENCES