WoRMS name details
original description
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ page(s): 459 [details]
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 [details]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1936). Nomenclatural changes involving California polychaete worms. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 26(1): 31-32., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39872214 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Etymology Assumed to be named after the French naturalist Jean Victor Audouin, although with an apparent feminine ending as Audouinia, perhaps for euphony. According to the code the 'a' ending makes the genus feminine. [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine. Quatrefages used three feminine species suffixes for his Audouinia species. Additionally the Code treats -a endings as feminine. [details]
Homonymy Junior homonym to Audouinia Costa, 1834 (Amphipoda) according to nomenclator zoologicus, and replaced with 'Cirriformia' Hartman, 1936, who states: "Audouinia was used by Costa in 1834 and 1851 for a genus of amphipods and is now considered a synonym of Corophium (cf. Stebbing, 1906, p. 685)." [details]
Type species Quatrefages included four species in his new genus Audouinia, A. lamarckii, A. norwegica, A. crassa, and A. polytrica, and it seems that no type species has been designated from amongst them. Hartman later (Catalogue 1959:406) listed Terebella tentaculata Montagu, 1808, as Cirriformia tentaculata, as type of Cirriformia, her new name (Hartman, 1936) for Audouinia, which is a homonym (via recombination as Cirriformia tentaculata), but this is dubious as T. tentaculata was not included in Audouinia by Quatrefages. Fauvel (1927: 91) subsequently included all four of Quatrefages original Audouinia species as synonyms of Audouinia tentaculata. It is probably this placement that prompted Hartman (Catalogue) to regard Montagu's original Terebella tentaculata, now as Cirriformia tentaculata, as the type species of her Cirriformia, her replacement name for Audouinia, which is a junior homonym. The Hartman (1936) creation of Cirriformia is very brief and does not consider the type species issue. [details]
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