WoRMS taxon details

Myxilla (Styloptilon) fromontae Van Soest & Hooper, 2020

1423538  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1423538)

accepted
Species
Phorbas anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior homonym)
Pronax anchorata Bergquist & Fromont, 1988 · unaccepted (genus transfer and junior homonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bergquist, P.R.; Fromont, P.J. (1988). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 Poecilosclerida. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 96: 1-197.
page(s): 72 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Nomenclature We cite here Van Soest, Hooper & Butler's text explaining the case for this nomen novum.
Removal of homonymy between...  
Nomenclature We cite here Van Soest, Hooper & Butler's text explaining the case for this nomen novum.
Removal of homonymy between Myxilla (Styloptilon) ancoratum (Cabioch, 1968) and Myxilla (Styloptilon) anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988).
1. Styloptilon ancoratum Cabioch, 1968: 236–239 (type locality Brittany, Atlantic coast of France). Originally described as Styloptilon ancoratum Cabioch, 1968 this species was transferred to Myxilla through the synonymy of Styloptilon Cabioch, 1968 with Myxilla Schmidt, 1862 used as a subgenus of the latter (Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Van Soest 1996: 26), differing from Myxilla (Myxilla) in having a plumose rather than reticulate skeletal structure (Van Soest 2002: 610).
2. Pronax anchorata Bergquist & Fromont, 1988: 72 (type locality Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand). This New Zealand species was originally described in Pronax Gray, 1867: 536, preoccupied by Pronax Gray, 1867: 526, which is a Clionaidae, with species transferred to Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (Van Soest 2002: 585). Phorbas species have an ectosomal skeleton of tornotes, choanosomal skeleton of two sizes of plumosely arranged and echinating acanthostyles, and arcuate isochelae (Van Soest 2002: 614), whereas the New Zealand species P. anchorata Bergquist & Fromont, 1988 has an ectosomal skeleton of oxeas, a plumose choanosomal skeleton of two sizes of acanthostyles and tridentate anchorate chelae, making it a species of Myxilla (Styloptilon). The nomenclatural difference between M. (S.) ancorata (Cabioch, 1968) and M. (S.) anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) is too slight, so the two are homonyms (ICZN Art. 58.10), and a new name is required for the latter species.
3. Summary. Myxilla (Styloptilon) ancoratum (Cabioch, 1968) is to be maintained as senior secondary homonym (ICZN 57.2). Myxilla (Styloptilon) anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) is a junior secondary homonym without known synonym, and requires a new name (ICZN Art. 58.10 & 60.3), for which Myxilla (Styloptilon) fromontae nom. nov., named after Jane Fromont was proposed.
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de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2024). World Porifera Database. Myxilla (Styloptilon) fromontae Van Soest & Hooper, 2020. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1423538 on 2024-03-29
Date
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2020-02-28 18:31:42Z
created
2020-11-23 08:37:40Z
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2021-03-15 09:46:14Z
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original description Bergquist, P.R.; Fromont, P.J. (1988). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 Poecilosclerida. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 96: 1-197.
page(s): 72 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Pronax anchorata Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) Bergquist, P.R.; Fromont, P.J. (1988). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Porifera, Demospongiae, Part 4 Poecilosclerida. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 96: 1-197.
page(s): 72 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

replacement name source Van Soest, R.W.M.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Butler, P.J. (2020). Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4745(1): 1-93., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1
page(s): 8 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Nomenclature We cite here Van Soest, Hooper & Butler's text explaining the case for this nomen novum.
Removal of homonymy between Myxilla (Styloptilon) ancoratum (Cabioch, 1968) and Myxilla (Styloptilon) anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988).
1. Styloptilon ancoratum Cabioch, 1968: 236–239 (type locality Brittany, Atlantic coast of France). Originally described as Styloptilon ancoratum Cabioch, 1968 this species was transferred to Myxilla through the synonymy of Styloptilon Cabioch, 1968 with Myxilla Schmidt, 1862 used as a subgenus of the latter (Desqueyroux-Faúndez & Van Soest 1996: 26), differing from Myxilla (Myxilla) in having a plumose rather than reticulate skeletal structure (Van Soest 2002: 610).
2. Pronax anchorata Bergquist & Fromont, 1988: 72 (type locality Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand). This New Zealand species was originally described in Pronax Gray, 1867: 536, preoccupied by Pronax Gray, 1867: 526, which is a Clionaidae, with species transferred to Phorbas Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (Van Soest 2002: 585). Phorbas species have an ectosomal skeleton of tornotes, choanosomal skeleton of two sizes of plumosely arranged and echinating acanthostyles, and arcuate isochelae (Van Soest 2002: 614), whereas the New Zealand species P. anchorata Bergquist & Fromont, 1988 has an ectosomal skeleton of oxeas, a plumose choanosomal skeleton of two sizes of acanthostyles and tridentate anchorate chelae, making it a species of Myxilla (Styloptilon). The nomenclatural difference between M. (S.) ancorata (Cabioch, 1968) and M. (S.) anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) is too slight, so the two are homonyms (ICZN Art. 58.10), and a new name is required for the latter species.
3. Summary. Myxilla (Styloptilon) ancoratum (Cabioch, 1968) is to be maintained as senior secondary homonym (ICZN 57.2). Myxilla (Styloptilon) anchorata (Bergquist & Fromont, 1988) is a junior secondary homonym without known synonym, and requires a new name (ICZN Art. 58.10 & 60.3), for which Myxilla (Styloptilon) fromontae nom. nov., named after Jane Fromont was proposed.
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