• Nomenclatural status

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• Doweld Alexander at: 06/02/2017 15:50

  Pneva (1989) proposed the new fossil-species Reynoutria paleojaponica from the Neogene sediments of the Russian Far East (Upper Miocene) and Japan (Pliocene/Pleistocene of Ushigatani). She designated the figured specimen by Nathorst (1888: pl. 10, fig. 16 as Polygonum cuspidatum Sieb. & Zucc.) as a holotype, but all the specimens of Nathorst (1888), which were originally deposited in the Geological Survey of the former Japanese Empire by Nathorst (‘in der der geologischen Landesuntersuchung Japan’s’), were later lost by a fire caused by Tokyo air raid during the World War II (K. Uemura, Honorary Research Fellow, National Museum of Nature & Science, Tokyo, Japan, in litt. to IFPNI Editorial Board). As a consequence, a lectotype is designated here for R. paleojaponica Pneva from the single preserved fossil specimen of Pneva, which originated from the Upper Miocene sediments of Russian Far East (not Pliocene/Pleistocene of Japanese Archipelago).