Ransonia Blandin, 1979

Tonini, Lorena, Silva, Juliana Paulo Da, Filho, Arlindo Serpa & Freitas, Joelcio, 2016, Replacement names for two preoccupied generic names in Arthropoda, Zootaxa 4097 (1), pp. 125-126 : 125

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:763CF56F-1973-4049-9486-0E15248984AD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6091446
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scientific name	Ransonia Blandin, 1979
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The genus Ransonia Blandin, 1979 ( Arachnida: Araneae ) was established with description of a new species, Ransonia mahasoana of the family Pisauridae ( Arachnida: Araneae ) endemic from Mahasoa, Madagascar. Unfortunately, this name is preoccupied by Ransonia Kramp, 1947 , a genus of the family Rhopalonematidae ( Hydrozoa: Trachymedusae ) with only one species, Ransonia (Aglantha) krampi Ranson (1932) , from Gibraltar, Mediterranean. According to article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature a new substitute name is necessary, since Ransonia Blandin, 1979 does not have a junior synonym applicable and is a junior homonym of another genus. Therefore, we propose a replacement name for the spider genus as follows.