WoRMS name details
Pectinaria guildingii Donovan, 1825
1419108 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1419108)
uncertain > nomen dubium (almost forgotten name)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Donovan, E. (1823-1827). The Naturalist's repository, or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history, etc. <em>[Book series].</em> In 5 volumes: 1 (1823) - 5 (1827)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/69310#/summary
page(s): volume 4, issue 40, first published 1825, Conchology, plate CXVIII [pl.118]; note: Species plate at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43084259 [details]
page(s): volume 4, issue 40, first published 1825, Conchology, plate CXVIII [pl.118]; note: Species plate at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43084259 [details]
Note St Vincent, West Indies
From editor or global species database
Type locality St Vincent, West Indies [details]
Etymology named for Lansdown Guilding, discoverer and reporter of the species
Status Long (1973: 860) stated Pectinaria guildingii to be nomen dubium as no specimen available, and insufficiently diagnosed...
Etymology named for Lansdown Guilding, discoverer and reporter of the species [details]
Status Long (1973: 860) stated Pectinaria guildingii to be nomen dubium as no specimen available, and insufficiently diagnosed...
Status Long (1973: 860) stated Pectinaria guildingii to be nomen dubium as no specimen available, and insufficiently diagnosed ("The description is not sufficient to determine its present standing"). It is not known if this name might affect validity of any Pectinaria name later recorded from the region such as Pectinaria regalis Verrill, 1901 and P. chilensis Nilsson, 1928 (fide Long 1973). Donovan's name has not been used as valid since 1899 so a prolifically used junior name would not be affected (Code Article 23.9 on reversal of precedence), although a sparsely used name could be. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Pectinaria guildingii Donovan, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1419108 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Donovan, E. (1823-1827). The Naturalist's repository, or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history, etc. <em>[Book series].</em> In 5 volumes: 1 (1823) - 5 (1827)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/69310#/summary
page(s): volume 4, issue 40, first published 1825, Conchology, plate CXVIII [pl.118]; note: Species plate at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43084259 [details]
status source Long, Charlene D. (1973). Pectinariidae (Polychaeta) from Caribbean and associated waters. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 23(4): 857-874., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1973/00000023/00000004/art00006
page(s): 860; note: Pectinaria guildingii stated to be nomen dubium as insufficiently diagnosed [details] Available for editors
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page(s): volume 4, issue 40, first published 1825, Conchology, plate CXVIII [pl.118]; note: Species plate at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43084259 [details]
status source Long, Charlene D. (1973). Pectinariidae (Polychaeta) from Caribbean and associated waters. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 23(4): 857-874., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1973/00000023/00000004/art00006
page(s): 860; note: Pectinaria guildingii stated to be nomen dubium as insufficiently diagnosed [details] Available for editors
[request] From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Not in the Hartman catalogue. However, Pectinaria guildingii is listed in 'Index animalium' on page 2856. This species name has probably been overlooked in reviews of the genus. However, Long (1973) mentions it in a review of Caribbean pectinariids. First described by Rev Lansdown Guilding in an 1821 paper read before the Linnean Society, but eventually named and published by Donovan (1825).
Donovan explains thus "For our knowledge of this most interesting addition to the family of Linnean Sabella, and to the family Pectinaria of the Amphitrites of Lamark, we are indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Lansdown Guilding, BA. and Fellow of the Linnean Society ; a gentleman resident at St. Vincents in the West Indies ; and by whom it was discovered in the deep waters of the sea surrounding that island. This information was communicated in a valuable paper presented some time ago to the Linnean Society, and read in its due course, on the I9th of March, 1821 ; and in conformity with the resolutions of the Council, was deposited with its explanatory drawing in the Archives of the Society. A few months since, the Reverend author of the paper, was obliging enough to request the Society, to allow the manuscript and the drawing, together with some other of his communications, to be placed in our possession ; with permission to select from them, and publish in our Repository […]." [details]
Etymology named for Lansdown Guilding, discoverer and reporter of the species [details]
Publication date 1825. Pectinaria guildingii is in the 1826 volume 4, but in the 40th part which was first published in 1825 according to an entry on page 77 in an abstracting journal called Bulletin des sciences naturelles et de géologie (volume 6-7, 1825-1826). The plate 118 has the date July 1 1825 (an inscription "Pub as the Act directs by E. Donovan and messrs Simpkin & Marshall. July 1 1825") so logically publication might be some time afterwards, unless the date was pre-dated on the plate to match the likely publication day. Sherborn (Index Animalium) lists the date as July 1825. [details]
Status Long (1973: 860) stated Pectinaria guildingii to be nomen dubium as no specimen available, and insufficiently diagnosed ("The description is not sufficient to determine its present standing"). It is not known if this name might affect validity of any Pectinaria name later recorded from the region such as Pectinaria regalis Verrill, 1901 and P. chilensis Nilsson, 1928 (fide Long 1973). Donovan's name has not been used as valid since 1899 so a prolifically used junior name would not be affected (Code Article 23.9 on reversal of precedence), although a sparsely used name could be. [details]
Type locality St Vincent, West Indies [details]
