WoRMS name details
original description
(of Lepidonotus johnstoni Kinberg, 1856) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133 page(s): 384; note: very brief description. Collected Panama [details]
basis of record
Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1941). On a collection of Polychaeta from Southern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 40(1): 16-60, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34209137 page(s): 20; note: A species record of Thormora johnstoni as 'Thormora (Lepidonotus) johnstoni (Kinberg)". This formation is an impossible name, and is probably a lapsus [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature An impossible name structure as Lepidonotus is senior to Thormora and cannot be a subgenus of it. The reverse (Lepidonotus (Thormora) johnstoni is possible, and may have been what the Berkeley's intended. Thus a lapsus in name formation. [details]
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