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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). (1982). OPINION 1225: Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818, Nereis cylindraria belgica Pallas, 1766 and Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (Polychaeta): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 39(3): 186-191.
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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN)
1982
OPINION 1225: Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818, Nereis cylindraria belgica Pallas, 1766 and Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (Polychaeta): conserved
Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
39(3): 186-191
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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RULING. (1) Under the plenary powers
(A) the following specific names are hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonmy: (a) Cylindraria Pallas, 1766, as published in the combination Nereis cylindraria; (b) tubiformis Pennant 1777, as published in the binomen Sabella tubiformis; (c) pectinata J. Sowerby, 1805 as published in the binomen Nereis pectinata· (d) pallassii Leach, 1816, as published in the binomen Cistena pallassii;
(B) the generic name Cistena Leach, 1816 is hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy·
(C) all designations of type specimens for , and all the original type material of, the nominal species-group taxon Nereis cylindraria belgica are hereby set aside and the neotype designated by Nielsen, Kierkegaard & Lemche, 1977, is hereby designated type of that speciesgroup taxon;
(D) it is hereby ruled that the family-group name PECTINARIIDAE Quatrefages~ 1865 is to be given precedence over the family-group name AMPHICTENIDAE Grube, 1851 whenever the two names are considered synonyms.
Systematics, Taxonomy
Amphictenidae Grube, 1850 accepted as Pectinariidae Quatrefages, 1866 (source of synonymy)
Cistena Leach, 1816 accepted as Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818 (status source)
Cistena cylindraria (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (status source)
Cistena pallassii Leach, 1816 accepted as Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (status source)
Cistena pectinata (Sowerby, 1806) accepted as Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Nereis cylindraria Pallas, 1766 (status source)
Nereis pectinata Sowerby, 1806 accepted as Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818 (status source)
Pectinaria belgica sensu Malmgren, 1866 accepted as Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (status source)
Sabella tubiformis Pennant, 1777 accepted as Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Cistena Leach, 1816 accepted as Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818 (status source)
Cistena cylindraria (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (status source)
Cistena pallassii Leach, 1816 accepted as Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (status source)
Cistena pectinata (Sowerby, 1806) accepted as Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Nereis cylindraria Pallas, 1766 (status source)
Nereis pectinata Sowerby, 1806 accepted as Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Pectinaria Lamarck, 1818 (status source)
Pectinaria belgica sensu Malmgren, 1866 accepted as Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (status source)
Sabella tubiformis Pennant, 1777 accepted as Lagis koreni Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Authority
The entry of Grube (1850: 330) for "Amphictenea. Mundsegment oben mit einer Querreihe von Paleen besetzt" has been ... [details]
Nomenclature
Amphictenidae derives from genus Amphictene Savigny, 1822, and was widely used. [details]
Nomenclature
All 'belgica' synonyms before Malmgren 1866 are believed to have been what is now Lagis koreni (NOT belgica sensu ... [details]
Status
For a long time Amphictenidae Grube 1850 was the accepted family name instead of the lesser-used Pectinariidae, a ... [details]
Status
ICZN Opinion 1225 suppressed (name suppressed for priority but not homonymy) the nominal parent Nereis cylindraria ... [details]
Taxonomy
Leach (1816) created Cistena for a new species name of 'Pallassii' [note spellling], but he included Nereis ... [details]
