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Proposal of new genera and species of the subfamily Diosaccinae 
(Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) – Corrigendum

Samuel GÓMEZ 1,*, Paulo Henrique Costa CORGOSINHO 2  
& Karen I. RIVERA-SÁNCHEZ 3

1 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología,  
Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México.

2 Dep. Biologia Geral. Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (UNIMONTES),  
Montes Claros, MG, Brazil.

3 Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Unidad Académica Mazatlán,  
Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México.

* Corresponding author: samuelgomez@ola.icmyl.unam.mx
2 Email: pcorgo@gmail.com

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Gómez S., Corgosinho P.H.C. & Rivera-Sánchez K.I. 2021. Proposal of new genera and species of the subfamily 
Diosaccinae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) – Corrigendum. European Journal of Taxonomy 778: 86–89. 
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.778.1569

The present corrigendum corrects errors that occurred in Gómez et al. (2021).

Junior homonym
The genus Dinetia Gómez, Corgosinho & Rivera-Sánchez, 2021 was proposed to accommodate Dinetia 
minuta (Dinet, 1971), previously included within Bulbamphiascus by Dinet (1971). We inadvertently 
overlooked that the genus name was preoccupied by Dinetia Decraemer & Gourbault, 1997, proposed to 
accommodate the draconematid nematod Dinetia nycterobia Decraemer & Gourbault, 1997 (Decraemer 
& Gourbault 1997). Following the principle of homonymy (ICZN 1999; art. 52.2), only the senior 
homonym may be used as a valid name. Therefore, in adherence to art. 60.3 (ICNZ 1999), Dinetocaris 
nom. nov. (gender: feminine), alluding to Alain Dinet (for his contribution to the taxonomy of harpacticoid 
copepods) followed by the suffix ‘caris’ (meaning ‘shrimp’), is proposed as the replacement name 
for Dinetia Gómez, Corgosinho & Rivera-Sánchez, 2021. The genus Dinetocaris nom. nov. includes 
Dinetocaris minuta (Dinet, 1971) comb. nov. as its type and only valid species, and it has been registered 
in Zoobank (urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:59E0ED74-C8D3-43BB-AA0C-4775840820A9).

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The case of Dineticola gen. nov.
The name Dineticola gen. nov. appears in Table 4 (pages 10 and 11) and on Fig. 19 (page 40) in Gómez 
et al. (2021). Dineticola gen. nov. was a slip of the pen and, therefore, it is a nomen nudum; it is 
unavailable because it was not accompanied by a description or a bibliographic reference, failing to 
conform to art. 13 (ICZN 1999). The genus name Dineticola gen. nov. should be changed to Dinetocaris 
gen. nov.

List of errors
Page 1, Abstract, line 14:
“and Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “and Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 2, Introduction, line 30:
“we propose Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “we propose Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 10, Table 4, terminals:
“Dineticola gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 11, Table 4, terminals:
“Dineticola gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 43, line 31:
“Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 43, line 35:
“(= Dinetia minuta (Dinet, 1971)” should be changed to “(= Dinetocaris minuta (Dinet, 1971)”

Page 44, line 23:
“Apomorphies for Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “Apomorphies for Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 44, lines 25, 30 and 37:
“Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 45, lines 12 and 17:
“Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 53, line 18:
“Phylogenetic position of Dinetia gen. nov.,…” should be changed to “Phylogenetic position of 
Dinetocaris gen. nov.,…”

Page 53, lines 32–33:
“…a clade composed of Dinetia gen. nov.,…” should be changed to “…a clade composed of Dinetocaris 
gen. nov.,…”

Page 55, lines 18, 19, 21, 25 and 29:
“Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”

Page 55, line 27:
“…the Dinetia–Rhyncholagena clade…” should be changed to “…the Dinetocaris–Rhyncholagena 
clade…”

Page 56, line 18:
“Dinetia gen. nov.” should be changed to “Dinetocaris gen. nov.”



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Page 40, Fig. 19 is in very low resolution. A new figure, with Dineticola corrected to Dinetocaris gen. 
nov., is provided here:

Fig. 19. Strict consensus cladogram of the generic relationships within the Diosaccinae.

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Published on: 15 November 2021

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