WoRMS name details
Cirriformia capillaris (Verrill, 1900)
332692 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332692)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym to original name Cirratulus tenuis Webster, replaced by C websteri for homonymy)
Species
Cirratulus (Audouinia) capillaris Verrill, 1900 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Cirratulus (Audouinia) capillaris Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
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Nomenclature Hartman (1942: 67) placed replacement name Cirratulus websteri Verrill 1900 (created by Verrill for homonym C tenuis...
Nomenclature Hartman (1942: 67) placed replacement name Cirratulus websteri Verrill 1900 (created by Verrill for homonym C tenuis Webster, 1884 from Bermuda) as the junior synonym of Verrill's new species also from Bermuda that he named Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900 in the same publication. However, this is inappropriate as the replacement name, Cirratulus websteri Verrill, 1900, inherits the type of C. tenuis Webster, 1884, a much older name. Hartman says she examined this type and found the type of Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900 was the same species. Hartman wrote "C. websteri Verrill (1900, p. 654) was proposed to replace [C tenuis Webster. 1884], but since it is the same as C. capillaris, the additional name is unnecessary." However, logically instead C. capillaris should be the junior synonym of C. tenuis, now renamed C. websteri. C. websteri has an objective connection to C. tenuis as they have the same type, whereas C capillaris has only via Hartman's opinion a subjective link to C. websteri, formerly C. tenuis. Cirratulus websteri Verrill 1900 logically is the valid name for subsequent use. The principle of the first reviser (ICZN 24.2.1) does not apply as the precedence of C. tenuis, now C websteri, over C capillaris is objectively determined, and not a matter of arbitrary choice.
In a different publication in the same year Hartman (1942: 128 also notes she had examined the type of Webster's Cirratulus tenuis, but oddly does not mention Verrill's replacement name for it. She again preferred to place it under the much later Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900.
Both Cirratulus websteri (now Cirriformia websteri) and Cirratulus capillaris appear to have almost no subsequent usages so far, although Magalhaes et al (2014:7) include Cirriformia capillaris in a table comparing Atlantic Ocean Cirriformia. [status analysis of G. Read, 21/04/2022] [details]
In a different publication in the same year Hartman (1942: 128 also notes she had examined the type of Webster's Cirratulus tenuis, but oddly does not mention Verrill's replacement name for it. She again preferred to place it under the much later Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900.
Both Cirratulus websteri (now Cirriformia websteri) and Cirratulus capillaris appear to have almost no subsequent usages so far, although Magalhaes et al (2014:7) include Cirriformia capillaris in a table comparing Atlantic Ocean Cirriformia. [status analysis of G. Read, 21/04/2022] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Cirriformia capillaris (Verrill, 1900). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332692 on 2024-11-09
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(of Cirratulus (Audouinia) capillaris Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 653 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Seixas, Victor Corrêa; Paiva, Paulo Cesar; Elias, Rodolfo. (2014). The Multitentaculate Cirratulidae of the Genera Cirriformia and Timarete (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Shallow Waters of Brazil. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(11): e112727., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112727
page(s): 7 of 20; note: usage of Cirriformia capillaris in a table comparing Atlantic Ocean Cirriformia [details]
status source Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University.</em> 8(1): 1-98. [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Hartman, Olga. (1942). The identity of some marine annelid worms in the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 92(3142): 101-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15766789
page(s): 128; note: Hartman examines the type of Webster's Cirratulus tenuis, but oddly does not mention Verrill's replacement name for it. She prefers to place it under the much later Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 653 [details] Available for editors
[request]taxonomy source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Seixas, Victor Corrêa; Paiva, Paulo Cesar; Elias, Rodolfo. (2014). The Multitentaculate Cirratulidae of the Genera Cirriformia and Timarete (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Shallow Waters of Brazil. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(11): e112727., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112727
page(s): 7 of 20; note: usage of Cirriformia capillaris in a table comparing Atlantic Ocean Cirriformia [details]
status source Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University.</em> 8(1): 1-98. [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Hartman, Olga. (1942). The identity of some marine annelid worms in the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 92(3142): 101-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15766789
page(s): 128; note: Hartman examines the type of Webster's Cirratulus tenuis, but oddly does not mention Verrill's replacement name for it. She prefers to place it under the much later Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900 [details] Available for editors
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Nomenclature Hartman (1942: 67) placed replacement name Cirratulus websteri Verrill 1900 (created by Verrill for homonym C tenuis Webster, 1884 from Bermuda) as the junior synonym of Verrill's new species also from Bermuda that he named Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900 in the same publication. However, this is inappropriate as the replacement name, Cirratulus websteri Verrill, 1900, inherits the type of C. tenuis Webster, 1884, a much older name. Hartman says she examined this type and found the type of Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900 was the same species. Hartman wrote "C. websteri Verrill (1900, p. 654) was proposed to replace [C tenuis Webster. 1884], but since it is the same as C. capillaris, the additional name is unnecessary." However, logically instead C. capillaris should be the junior synonym of C. tenuis, now renamed C. websteri. C. websteri has an objective connection to C. tenuis as they have the same type, whereas C capillaris has only via Hartman's opinion a subjective link to C. websteri, formerly C. tenuis. Cirratulus websteri Verrill 1900 logically is the valid name for subsequent use. The principle of the first reviser (ICZN 24.2.1) does not apply as the precedence of C. tenuis, now C websteri, over C capillaris is objectively determined, and not a matter of arbitrary choice. In a different publication in the same year Hartman (1942: 128 also notes she had examined the type of Webster's Cirratulus tenuis, but oddly does not mention Verrill's replacement name for it. She again preferred to place it under the much later Cirratulus capillaris Verrill 1900.
Both Cirratulus websteri (now Cirriformia websteri) and Cirratulus capillaris appear to have almost no subsequent usages so far, although Magalhaes et al (2014:7) include Cirriformia capillaris in a table comparing Atlantic Ocean Cirriformia. [status analysis of G. Read, 21/04/2022] [details]
