WoRMS name details

Leocrates cupreus iridis [nomen nudum]

341063  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341063)

 unaccepted > nomen nudum (lapsus, text misinterpretation. No original author, no such taxon named by Grube)
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Lamprophaes cuprea Grube, 1867) Grube, A.E. (1867). Neue anneliden aus den Gattungen Eunice, Hesione, Lamprophaës, und Travisia. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Cultur. Breslau.</em> 44: 64-66., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46548206 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Leocrates cupreus iridis [nomen nudum]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341063 on 2024-03-29
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2008-03-19 16:32:34Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2013-11-08 19:47:35Z
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2018-02-22 04:58:11Z
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2022-05-24 09:58:34Z
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2022-05-24 21:37:00Z
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original description  (of Lamprophaes cuprea Grube, 1867) Grube, A.E. (1867). Neue anneliden aus den Gattungen Eunice, Hesione, Lamprophaës, und Travisia. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Cultur. Breslau.</em> 44: 64-66., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46548206 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record 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.
page(s): 187 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Pleijel, Fredrik. (1998). Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 27(2): 89-163, 38 figures, 7 tables., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1998.tb00433.x
page(s): 160 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2020). Revision of <em>Leocrates</em> Kinberg, 1866 and <em>Leocratides</em> Ehlers, 1908 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4739(1): 1-114., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4739.1.1
page(s): 28, 33; note: mistaken usage as if created as a variety name by Grube. Grube did not create such a variety name. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
page(s): 105-107; note: The description of L cupreus and L. iris which together has been misinterpreted by later authors as including naming a new variety L. cupreus iridis [details]   
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Nomen nudum. Grube (1878:106) further described only his recombined Leocrates cupreus (Grube, 1867), and did not describe a subspecies, L. cupreus iridis. The "subspecies" variant of the name, rather than the correct L. cupreus, appears in the catalogue of Hartman (1959:187) and is repeated in Pettibone (1970) and Pleijel (1998:160), but there is no such taxon. The misinterpretation, origin unknown, is of the parenthetical note after the heading in bold for "Leocrates cupreus" where not in bold Grube has the words "(var. L. lridis)" [see the attached image of Grube's printed page] meaning the following text describes 'variation from Leocrates iris'. It is clear from two mentions in the following Latin text that this is indicating the close similarity of the already described L. cupreus to the immediately preceding species Leocrates iris, also from Philippines, in the text of Grube's monograph. Grube had named the species with Latin iris -iridis meaning rainbow or iridescent, and had described in his text the dorsal iridescent flesh. Grube then includes his previous name Lamprophaes cupreus [actually cuprea] as the synonym of Leocrates cupreus and begins a short Latin description of Leocrates cupreus with "Leocrati Iridi simillima" [Latin for 'similar to Leocrates iris'] and ends it with "Cetera ut in Leocrate Iride".[Latin for 'the rest [of the description] as in Leocrates iris']. Conclusively for this argument Leocrates cupreus is the species name listed by Grube in the species list by sample locations on p.iv of the introduction, and Leocrates iris is listed on p.vi. There is no variety name included [G. Read, November 2013].
Despite the long-standing advice in the above note, Salazar-Vallejo (2020: 28, 33) in a revision of Leocrates has continued the error that there was a L. cupreus variety called L. cupreus var. L. iridis, and he comments on it, although fortunately Salazar-Vallejo ultimately includes this invented name in the synonymy of L. cupreus. Anyone carefully reading the full text of Grube, written in both Latin and German, can understand the true situation - Grube was simply comparing his preceding L. iris hesionid description with his older name L. cupreus, the next worm Grube writes about. [G Read May 2022] [details]