WoRMS name details
Basta Oken, 1815
196766 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196766)
unaccepted (unavailable name)
Genus
Spongia basta Pallas, 1766 accepted as Ianthella basta (Pallas, 1766) (type by subsequent designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403
page(s): 77 [details]
page(s): 77 [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Basta Oken, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196766 on 2024-11-20
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Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403
page(s): 77 [details]
additional source ICZN. (1956). Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled <i>Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte</i> published in 1815-1816. <em>Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 14: 1-42., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34677658 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 125-126 & 159 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 77 [details]
additional source ICZN. (1956). Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled <i>Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte</i> published in 1815-1816. <em>Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 14: 1-42., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34677658 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Laubenfels, M.W. de. (1948). The order Keratosa of the phylum Porifera. A monographic study. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 3: 1-217.
page(s): 125-126 & 159 [details] Available for editors
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Validity Oken (1815) was officially rejected as a work in zoological taxonomy by the ICZN (see Opinion 417, Hemming, 1956). Oken mentioned two species, Basta ventilabrum strigosa (= Phakellia ventilabrum) and Basta flabelliformis (= Ianthella flabelliformis), but also named Spongia basta Pallas, 1766 (= Ianthella basta) as belonging to the genus. No attempt has been made to make the name Basta Oken, 1815 available by a request to the Commission of the ICZN, although Burton (1934: 395) previously pointed out that Basta Oken, 1815 had priority over Ianthella Gray, 1869. De Laubenfels (1948: 159) made a very strange attempt to suppress the genus Basta by assigning specimen BMNH 83.12.4.28 as neotype of Spongia basta Esper, 1794 (ignoring the fact that Pallas was the original author the name), the same specimen which he previously (1934) already had assigned as the neotype of Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759. By this action he meant to make the genus Basta a junior synonym of Spongia. Needless to say that De Laubenfels' action was invalid, as (1) a single specimen cannot be the neotype of two different species, and (b) Pallas' (and Esper's) description of Spongia basta is fundamentally different from that of Spongia officinalis and there is no doubt that Pallas' species is a member of what is now known as Ianthella Gray, 1869. The name Ianthella is now well established and any attempt to make the name Basta available on priority grounds is useless. [details]
