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Type species Iphionella specimen recorded as I. cimex (Quatrefages) by Mclntosh, 1885:58 was named I. philippinensis by Pettibone, 1986 [details]
Type species An unusual change of type species has occurred in Iphionella. Iphione cimex Quatrefages, 1866 was the type species for Iphionella McIntosh (1885) by monotypy. Pettibone (1986) recognised that McIntosh's Iphionella specimen was not Iphione cimex Quatrefages, and she described and named it as Iphionella philippensis Pettibone, 1986. As Iphione cimex was not an Iphione, and not in Iphioninae (yet to be separated at family rank), she moved it to a new genus, Gaudichaudius in Polynoidae. She stated the type species situation as follows: "Type-species: Iphionella cimex; not Iphione cimex Quatrefages, 1866 (= Iphionella philippinensis, new name)". This was not correct and strictly, she should have simply moved Iphionella to Polynoinae and created a new Iphioninae genus for McIntosh's misidentified specimen. McCowin et al. (2018) used Code article 70.3 (Misidentified type species) to continue Pettibone's assignments for the sake of stability. Thus Iphionella philippinensis becomes the new type species of Iphionella, and Iphione cimex Quatrefages is confirmed as type of Gaudichaudius. [details]