WoRMS name details
Hesionella maccullochae Salazar-Vallejo, de León-González & Carrera-Parra, 2019
1444728 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1444728)
unaccepted (unjustified emendation (mc to mac))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Hesionella mccullochae Hartman, 1939) Hartman, O. 1939. New species of polychaetous annelids from southern California. With a discussion on the host of one of them. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 7(2): 157-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822385
page(s): 159-161, plate 29 figs. 1-4 [details]
page(s): 159-161, plate 29 figs. 1-4 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hesionella maccullochae Salazar-Vallejo, de León-González & Carrera-Parra, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1444728 on 2025-04-17
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(of Hesionella mccullochae Hartman, 1939) Hartman, O. 1939. New species of polychaetous annelids from southern California. With a discussion on the host of one of them. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 7(2): 157-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822385
page(s): 159-161, plate 29 figs. 1-4 [details]
basis of record Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2019). Phylogeny of Microphthalminae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971, and revision of Hesionella Hartman, 1939, and Struwela Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 (Annelida, Errantia). <em>PeerJ.</em> 7: e7723: 1-35., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/7723
page(s): 17-18 of 35; note: the authors change the spelling of "mccullochae" to "maccullochae". This is an unjustified emendation, but becomes an available name (Article 33.2) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 159-161, plate 29 figs. 1-4 [details]
basis of record Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2019). Phylogeny of Microphthalminae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971, and revision of Hesionella Hartman, 1939, and Struwela Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 (Annelida, Errantia). <em>PeerJ.</em> 7: e7723: 1-35., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/7723
page(s): 17-18 of 35; note: the authors change the spelling of "mccullochae" to "maccullochae". This is an unjustified emendation, but becomes an available name (Article 33.2) [details] Available for editors
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Spelling Salazar-Vallejo et al (2019: 17-18 of 35) change the spelling of Hesionella "mccullochae" to "maccullochae", justifying this by reference to a document on formation of names guidelines at the ICZN website. However, there is no Code rule requiring a modification to "maccullochae" This is an unjustified emendation, but becomes an available name (Article 33.2) with its own authorship, because the authors had the clear intent to adopt a new spelling. Hesionella "mccullochae" was named by Hartman (1939) after her colleague Irene McCulloch, and has the correct feminine gender suffix. A recommendation in the 1985 3rd edition code suggested changing "McC" to "macc" when forming such names, but this was only advice (perhaps dubious in this case) for forming names at the time of publication. It is not a license to change a long-used spelling many decades later [G Read, June 2020] [details]
