Abstract
Amblyomma acutangulatum Neumann, 1899 is treated as valid by Barker and Murrell (2008), but it is a nomen nudum because the description is poor and the type has been lost, as explained in Guglielmone et al. (2009). However, according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1999), names published before 1931 should not be classified as nomina nuda if they are accompanied by a figure or a drawing (even if equivocal) (Dunlop 2011). Therefore, A. acutangulatum is a nomen dubium.
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Guglielmone, A.A., Robbins, R.G., Apanaskevich, D.A., Petney, T.N., Estrada-Peña, A., Horak, I.G. (2014). Remarks on Some Invalid Names. In: The Hard Ticks of the World. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7497-1_6
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