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Nomenclature; taxonomy; Squamata; Crocodylomorpha; Xantusiidae; Metriorhynchidae; Cricosaurinae; Rhacheosaurini; Cricosaura; Cricosaurus; night lizards; fossil crocodylomorphs

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Case 3871: CRICOSAURINAE Koken, 1888 (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha, METRIORHYNCHIDAE): proposed emendation to CRICOSAURUSINAE to remove homonymy with CRICOSAURINAE Cope, 1875 (Lepidosauria, Squamata, XANTUSIIDAE)

Mark T Young, Yanina Herrera, Eric Wilberg, Sven Sachs, Pascal Abel, Marco Brandalise de Andrade, “Case 3871: CRICOSAURINAE Koken, 1888 (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha, METRIORHYNCHIDAE): proposed emendation to CRICOSAURUSINAE to remove homonymy with CRICOSAURINAE Cope, 1875 (Lepidosauria, Squamata, XANTUSIIDAE)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 81, 2024.

The purpose of this application, under Article 55.3 of the ICZN Code, is to remove the homonymy between the unused CRICOSAURINAE Koken, 1888 (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha, METRIORHYNCHIDAE) (type genus Cricosaurus Wagner, 1858) and the in-use senior homonym CRICOSAURINAE Cope, 1875 (Lepidosauria, Squamata, XANTUSIIDAE) (type genus Cricosaura Gundlach & Peters in....

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