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Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970

129634  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129634)

accepted
Genus
Janua (Dexiospira) Caullery & Mesnil, 1897 · unaccepted ( Dexiospira genus is a junior...)  
Dexiospira genus is a junior homonym, its synonym Neodexiospira replaces it
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pillai, T. Gottfried. (1970). Studies on a collection of Spirorbids from Ceylon, together with a critical review and revision of Spirorbid systematics, and an account of their phylogeny and zoogeography. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 8(2): 100-172. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
Note The type species of Neodexiospira is Spirorbis...  
From editor or global species database
Type species The type species of Neodexiospira is Spirorbis formosus Bush, 1905 accepted as Neodexiospira formosa (Bush, 1905) by original designation by Pillai (1970: 143). Spirorbis pseudocorrugatus Bush, 1905, the type species of Dexiospira as designated subsequently by Chamberlin (1919: 478), is NOT also the type species of Neodexiospira. The statement that it was the type species of Neodexiospira was a lapsus made by Knight-Jones, 1984. Unfortunately subsequent authors, including recently Kupriyanova, Rzhavsky & ten Hove, 2019 in a review, have repeated this lapsus without questioning it. [details]
Status Pillai (1970: 143) named Spirorbis formosus Bush, 1905 from Bermuda as type species of his new genus Neodexiospira....  
Status Pillai (1970: 143) named Spirorbis formosus Bush, 1905 from Bermuda as type species of his new genus Neodexiospira. Knight-Jones (1972: 5) considered the genus to be an invalid synonym of Dexiospira Caullery and Mesnil 1897, which she treated as a valid subgenus of Janua Saint-Joseph 1894. Later Knight-Jones (1984:110) reported that Dexiospira was a junior homonym and replaced it with junior synonym Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970. She also states the type species of Neodexiospira is N. pseudocorrugata (Bush, 1905) (the type of Dexiospira). Neodexiospira pseudocorrugata is definitely not the type of Neodexiospira, but unfortunately the statement has been adopted by several others, continuing up to 2023 when corrected by WoRMS editors. Neodexiospira is not a replacement name, instead the situation is a synonymy and obviously any synonym retains its original type species. If it did not then there would be chaos in nomenclatural stability. [G. Read, September 2023] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970. Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2024) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129634 on 2024-04-19
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2024). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129634 on 2024-04-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2006-07-17 10:41:03Z
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2006-09-25 06:54:45Z
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Martinez, Olga
2008-03-05 09:00:37Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2012-04-19 03:33:03Z
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2022-02-16 10:17:55Z
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2023-09-24 02:30:53Z
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original description Pillai, T. Gottfried. (1970). Studies on a collection of Spirorbids from Ceylon, together with a critical review and revision of Spirorbid systematics, and an account of their phylogeny and zoogeography. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 8(2): 100-172. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf
page(s): 151; note: Neodexiospira is listed as invalid and referred to Dexiospira [details]   

additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]   

additional source Knight-Jones, P. (1972). New species and a new subgenus of Spirorbinae (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) from Kenya. <em>J. Zool. Lond.</em> 166: 1-18. [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender Neodexiospira should be feminine as most 'spira' genus names are treated as feminine with their adjectival species names being given feminine suffices. [details]

Status Pillai (1970: 143) named Spirorbis formosus Bush, 1905 from Bermuda as type species of his new genus Neodexiospira. Knight-Jones (1972: 5) considered the genus to be an invalid synonym of Dexiospira Caullery and Mesnil 1897, which she treated as a valid subgenus of Janua Saint-Joseph 1894. Later Knight-Jones (1984:110) reported that Dexiospira was a junior homonym and replaced it with junior synonym Neodexiospira Pillai, 1970. She also states the type species of Neodexiospira is N. pseudocorrugata (Bush, 1905) (the type of Dexiospira). Neodexiospira pseudocorrugata is definitely not the type of Neodexiospira, but unfortunately the statement has been adopted by several others, continuing up to 2023 when corrected by WoRMS editors. Neodexiospira is not a replacement name, instead the situation is a synonymy and obviously any synonym retains its original type species. If it did not then there would be chaos in nomenclatural stability. [G. Read, September 2023] [details]

Type species The type species of Neodexiospira is Spirorbis formosus Bush, 1905 accepted as Neodexiospira formosa (Bush, 1905) by original designation by Pillai (1970: 143). Spirorbis pseudocorrugatus Bush, 1905, the type species of Dexiospira as designated subsequently by Chamberlin (1919: 478), is NOT also the type species of Neodexiospira. The statement that it was the type species of Neodexiospira was a lapsus made by Knight-Jones, 1984. Unfortunately subsequent authors, including recently Kupriyanova, Rzhavsky & ten Hove, 2019 in a review, have repeated this lapsus without questioning it. [details]
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