WoRMS name details
Dodecaceria fewkesi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954
327435 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:327435)
unaccepted (unnecessary replacement species name for Sabella pacifica Fewkes, 1889)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Berkeley, E.; Berkeley, C. (1954). Notes on the life-history of the polychaete Dodecaceria fewkesi (nom.n.). <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 11(3): 326-334., available online at https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f54-021#.WAg498mBuCM
page(s): 326-333, figs. 1-7; note: replacement name for supposed homonymy, but unnecessary. See Sabella pacifica [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 326-333, figs. 1-7; note: replacement name for supposed homonymy, but unnecessary. See Sabella pacifica [details] Available for editors
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Note Pacific Ocean, southern California
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
Nomenclature Dodecaceria fewkesi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 was a replacement name for supposed homonymy of the original Sabella...
Status Authors who have considered if Dodecaceria fewkesi is valid have concentrated on whether it is a synonym of Dodecaceria...
Nomenclature Dodecaceria fewkesi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 was a replacement name for supposed homonymy of the original Sabella pacifica, but was unnecessary. See Sabella pacifica Fewkes, 1889. The supposed senior homonym was Sabella pacifici of Grube, and its difference of a single letter is sufficient to prevent Sabella pacifica from being a junior primary homonym (article 57.6 One-letter difference) [details]
Status Authors who have considered if Dodecaceria fewkesi is valid have concentrated on whether it is a synonym of Dodecaceria...
Status Authors who have considered if Dodecaceria fewkesi is valid have concentrated on whether it is a synonym of Dodecaceria fistulicola Ehlers, 1901 from South America (eg Blake, 1996: 375). However, it is a replacement name for Sabella pacifica, and the basic issue is whether it was required. As the Code regards species names with one letter difference NOT to be homonyms (there are exceptions dealt with in Article 58), Sabella pacifica is not a homonym of Sabella pacifici, and the replacement D. fewkesi was NOT required. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Dodecaceria fewkesi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327435 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Berkeley, E.; Berkeley, C. (1954). Notes on the life-history of the polychaete Dodecaceria fewkesi (nom.n.). <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 11(3): 326-334., available online at https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f54-021#.WAg498mBuCM
page(s): 326-333, figs. 1-7; note: replacement name for supposed homonymy, but unnecessary. See Sabella pacifica [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Fewkes, J. W. (1889). New invertebrata from the coast of California. <em>Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem.</em> 21(7,8,9): 99-146, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11711150
note: the original description of Sabella pacifica, a name unnecessarily replaced by Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 [details]
additional source 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 [request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Cirratulidae Ryckholdt, 1851. Including a revision of the genera and species from the eastern North Pacific. pages 263-384. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
page(s): 326-333, figs. 1-7; note: replacement name for supposed homonymy, but unnecessary. See Sabella pacifica [details] Available for editors
[request] taxonomy source Fewkes, J. W. (1889). New invertebrata from the coast of California. <em>Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem.</em> 21(7,8,9): 99-146, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11711150
note: the original description of Sabella pacifica, a name unnecessarily replaced by Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 [details]
additional source 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
[request] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] redescription Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Cirratulidae Ryckholdt, 1851. Including a revision of the genera and species from the eastern North Pacific. pages 263-384. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Habitat Berkeley & Berkeley (1954) "D. fewkesi constructs and lives in calcareous tubes built in masses on rock faces which are usually more or less vertical, but this is not invariably the case. The tubes are fused together on a common base from which the upper ends project freely for a distance of anything up to approximately half an inch. The anterior portion of the tubes and their mouths are roughly circular and 1 to 3 mm. in diameter, but often two or three adjacent tubes are fused, making irregular terminations (Figure f ). The tube masses vary considerably in shape and size and usually occur in distinct colonial formations, but fusion of adiacent masses frequently takes place and a rock face may be more or less completely covered. They are found only in fairly rapidly moving, well aerated, water and only in the intertidal area, from the lowest to about mid-tide mark. When covered with water, the worrns extend the first few body-segments and spread their branchiae and tentacular cirri, which are kept in constant motion, but they withdraw into their tubes at the fall of the tide or if disturbed."Blake (1996:374) describes the tube masses as "hardened rock-like structures that are riddled with tubes and attached to boulders and other hard surfaces in the intertidal ..." [details]
Nomenclature Dodecaceria fewkesi Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 was a replacement name for supposed homonymy of the original Sabella pacifica, but was unnecessary. See Sabella pacifica Fewkes, 1889. The supposed senior homonym was Sabella pacifici of Grube, and its difference of a single letter is sufficient to prevent Sabella pacifica from being a junior primary homonym (article 57.6 One-letter difference) [details]
Status Authors who have considered if Dodecaceria fewkesi is valid have concentrated on whether it is a synonym of Dodecaceria fistulicola Ehlers, 1901 from South America (eg Blake, 1996: 375). However, it is a replacement name for Sabella pacifica, and the basic issue is whether it was required. As the Code regards species names with one letter difference NOT to be homonyms (there are exceptions dealt with in Article 58), Sabella pacifica is not a homonym of Sabella pacifici, and the replacement D. fewkesi was NOT required. [details]
From other sources
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
