WoRMS name details
Serpula spirorbis [epithet-use error]
450768 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:450768)
unaccepted (lapsus calami for intended S. planorbis in Zibrowius, 1970, & of no taxonomic significance)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Paraserpula planorbis Southward, 1963) Southward, Eve C. (1963). Some new and little-known serpulid Polychaetes from the continental slope. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K.</em> 43(3): 573-587., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400025534
page(s): 573; note: new genus, new species [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 573; note: new genus, new species [details] Available for editors
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Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Serpula spirorbis [epithet-use error]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=450768 on 2024-04-18
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(of Paraserpula planorbis Southward, 1963) Southward, Eve C. (1963). Some new and little-known serpulid Polychaetes from the continental slope. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the U.K.</em> 43(3): 573-587., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400025534
page(s): 573; note: new genus, new species [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Zibrowius, H. (1970). Contribution à l'étude de Serpulidae (Polychaete Sédentaire) du Brésil. <em>Boletim do Instituto oceanográfico, Sao Paulo.</em> 19: 1-32., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/S0373-55241970000100001
page(s): 4; note: Mistaken usage as Serpula spirorbis (Southward, 1963) for author's intended Serpula planorbis (Southward, 1963) [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 573; note: new genus, new species [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record Zibrowius, H. (1970). Contribution à l'étude de Serpulidae (Polychaete Sédentaire) du Brésil. <em>Boletim do Instituto oceanográfico, Sao Paulo.</em> 19: 1-32., available online at https://doi.org/10.1590/S0373-55241970000100001
page(s): 4; note: Mistaken usage as Serpula spirorbis (Southward, 1963) for author's intended Serpula planorbis (Southward, 1963) [details] Available for editors
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Editor's comment The apparent combination and author of [sic] "Serpula spirorbis (Southward, 1963)" is a simple error, occurring by mistaken use of the wrong epithet in the text flow of a third author (Zibrowius), and is without significance in taxonomy. Southward (1963) had authored Paraserpula planorbis, with both genus and species clearly unmatching either part of the Linnaean name Serpula spirorbis. A subsequent homonymy to Serpula spirorbis is impossible. The WoRMS entry has been corrected from an earlier presentation as if it was a secondary homonym of a Linnaean name. While the error is recorded here to explain what happened, it is not useful to attribute the original authorship and subsequent "homonym" to Southward, in relation to the error of a later author. However, the intended name of Serpula planorbis (Southward, 1963) is an unreplaced secondary homonym to another Linnaean species, Serpula planorbis Linnaeus, 1758, [details]
