WoRMS name details

Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818

338190  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338190)

 unaccepted (superfluous replacement name)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Lamarck, J.B. (1818). [volume 5 of] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. <em>Paris, Deterville.</em> vol 5: 612 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 319; note: unnecessary replacement name for Polydora cornuta [details]   
Nomenclature Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818 may appear to be simply the senior homonym to "Spio caudatus Delle Chiaje, 1827", a nereidid,...  
Nomenclature Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818 may appear to be simply the senior homonym to "Spio caudatus Delle Chiaje, 1827", a nereidid, as explained in Imajima (1972:107) who states Delle Chiaje's name is preoccupied. However, the history is more complex. Lamarck's name was an unnecessary replacement name for the valid Polydora cornuta. While invalid, it is still an available name by indication (art. 12.2.3, an apparent exception to art. 11.5 that names must be valid when proposed), and cannot be excluded from homonymy (art. 54.2). However, that is not relevant. Even if it was excluded, Neanthes caudata (sensu delle Chiaje, 1827) would not as a consequence become a valid name because it is a usage of the existing Lamarck name based on a misidentification (see Spio caudatus sensu delle Chiaje). Pettibone (1963:162) correctly and simply presented the Spio caudatus usage of Delle Chiaje as not Lamarck's species. She did not regard it as a homonym, although Hartman catalogue labelled it as such. [G. Read original analysis, Jan 2016] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338190 on 2024-03-28
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original description Lamarck, J.B. (1818). [volume 5 of] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. <em>Paris, Deterville.</em> vol 5: 612 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 319; note: unnecessary replacement name for Polydora cornuta [details]   

additional source Imajima, M. (1972). Review of the annelid worms of the family Nereidae of Japan, with descriptions of five new species or subspecies. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo.</em> 15(1): 37-153.
page(s): 107; note: suggests Lamarck's spionid name is a senior homonym of Delle Chiaje's nereidid name, but uses Neanthes caudatus anyway [details]   

source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Nomenclature Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818 may appear to be simply the senior homonym to "Spio caudatus Delle Chiaje, 1827", a nereidid, as explained in Imajima (1972:107) who states Delle Chiaje's name is preoccupied. However, the history is more complex. Lamarck's name was an unnecessary replacement name for the valid Polydora cornuta. While invalid, it is still an available name by indication (art. 12.2.3, an apparent exception to art. 11.5 that names must be valid when proposed), and cannot be excluded from homonymy (art. 54.2). However, that is not relevant. Even if it was excluded, Neanthes caudata (sensu delle Chiaje, 1827) would not as a consequence become a valid name because it is a usage of the existing Lamarck name based on a misidentification (see Spio caudatus sensu delle Chiaje). Pettibone (1963:162) correctly and simply presented the Spio caudatus usage of Delle Chiaje as not Lamarck's species. She did not regard it as a homonym, although Hartman catalogue labelled it as such. [G. Read original analysis, Jan 2016] [details]