WoRMS name details
Psamathe cirrata
1769682 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1769682)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling ('cirrhata' is not a lapsus needing correction)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Psamathe cirrhata Keferstein, 1862) Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 107-109, plate IX figs. 32-36; note: spelling is Psamathe cirrhata (later contemporary authors and more recently Salazar-Vallejo (2022) incorrectly dropped the 'h') [details]
page(s): 107-109, plate IX figs. 32-36; note: spelling is Psamathe cirrhata (later contemporary authors and more recently Salazar-Vallejo (2022) incorrectly dropped the 'h') [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Psamathe cirrata. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1769682 on 2025-04-16
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(of Psamathe cirrhata Keferstein, 1862) Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 107-109, plate IX figs. 32-36; note: spelling is Psamathe cirrhata (later contemporary authors and more recently Salazar-Vallejo (2022) incorrectly dropped the 'h') [details]
basis of record Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 55; note: used the misspelling 'cirrata' [details]
page(s): 107-109, plate IX figs. 32-36; note: spelling is Psamathe cirrhata (later contemporary authors and more recently Salazar-Vallejo (2022) incorrectly dropped the 'h') [details]
basis of record Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 55; note: used the misspelling 'cirrata' [details]
Other
additional source
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2022). New species of hesionid and phyllodocid polychaetes (Annelida, Errantia) from Clipperton Island. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 44(1): 1-26., available online at http://zoosystema.com/44/1
page(s): 3-4; note: Salazar-Vallejo believes 'cirrhata' should be corrected but the Code article 32.5.1 he cites as justification instead rules out correcting 'incorrect' latinizations. See spelling note. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 3-4; note: Salazar-Vallejo believes 'cirrhata' should be corrected but the Code article 32.5.1 he cites as justification instead rules out correcting 'incorrect' latinizations. See spelling note. [details] Available for editors
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Spelling Some authors, notably Claparède (1863) and Salazar-Vallejo (2022) have corrected the spelling of the Psamathe species-level name from 'cirrhata' to 'cirrata'. There is no doubt that Keferstein (1862) used the German spelling cirrhata, intending reference to cirri (whereas in Latinized Greek 'cirrhata' may mean the colour yellow). In one sentence Keferstein refers to Fühlercirrhen, Rückencirrhus, and Bauchcirrhus, indicating that in technical German at the time 'cirrus' was spelled 'cirrhus'. Thus it is not suprising that his Latinization for the species name was 'cirrhata'. Over the years 'cirrhatus' 'cirrhata' has been used by a number of taxonomists as a species-level name. For example Pallas named a bird known as the tufted puffin, which had yellow tufts (or cirri) on its head, with the epithet 'cirrhata' thus maybe both meanings of 'cirrhata' were conceivably invoked, although a bird name encyclopedia translates cirrhata as curly-headed "cirrhata / cirrhatas L. cirratus curly-headed {cirrus curl of hair)." The relevant Code article is 32.5.1 which states that incorrect latinization is not an inadvertent error (lapsus calami) that must be corrected. This is sensible as what is 'incorrect' is difficult to determine when many 'modern' latinizations are constructed without obvious adherence to classical Latin usage. There seems no doubt that Keferstein intended the 'cirrhata' spelling, and its use was not accidental, thus subsequent altering of his spelling should not occur. [details]
