Rukavisсhnikovia, a new replacement name for preoccupied Iliella Rukavishnikova, 1980 (Brachiopoda) non Tschernyshev, 1940 (Crustacea).

The generic name Iliella was proposed by Rukavischnikova (Nikitin & al., 1980: 71; type species I. minima Rukavischnikova, by original designation) for a new fossil brachiopod genus from the Upper Ordovician (Katian: Chokparian horizon) of the north of Dulankara mountains (Southern Kazakhstan, Central Asia). However, this name is already preoccupied by a fossil branchiopod generic name Iliella Tschernyschev (1940: 12, 32), which is in current use (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Ketmeniidae Novozhilov, 1957), described from the Lower Jurassic deposits of Ketmen’ mountains of Central Asia. To resolve homonymy, in accordance with article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), Rukavischnikovia nom. nov. (type species Iliella minima Rukavischnikova, 1980) is here proposed as a replacement name for Iliella Rukavischnikova non Tschernyschev, honoring Tatiana Borisovna Rukavischnikova (Татьяна Борисовна Рукавишникова), eminent Russian (formerly Soviet) palaeontologist and brachiopod authority.