''Cyamella'' is a genus of proetid

trilobite Trilobites (; meaning "three-lobed entities") are extinction, extinct marine arthropods that form the class (biology), class Trilobita. One of the earliest groups of arthropods to appear in the fossil record, trilobites were among the most succ ...

s. It was originally described by Robert M. Owens in 1978, as "''Cyamops''", a

junior homonym In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon. The rule in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is that the first such name to be published is the s ...

of the fly genus ''

Cyamops ''Cyamops'' is a genus of fly, flies. Species * ''Cyamops alessandrae'' Mathis & Sueyoshi, 2011 * ''Cyamops americus'' Baptista & Mathis, 1994 * ''Cyamops australicus'' Willi Hennig, Hennig, 1969 * ''Cyamops banvaneue'' Baptista & Mathis, ...

'', but was renamed in 1990.

References

Proetida genera Ordovician trilobites of Europe {{proetida-stub