WoRMS name details
Spinther wireni Hartman, 1948
332048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332048)
unaccepted (superfluous replacement name )
Species
Sphinter wiréni [misspelling] · unaccepted (subsequent double misspelling for...)
subsequent double misspelling for Spinther wireni (genus misspelling, species added accent)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, O. (1948). The polychaetous annelids of Alaska. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 2(1): 3-58., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/8890
page(s): 16; note: Replacement name for "Spinther arcticus Wiren", but there is no such name to be replaced. [details]
page(s): 16; note: Replacement name for "Spinther arcticus Wiren", but there is no such name to be replaced. [details]
Note Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea [details]
Nomenclature Superfluous replacement name for the purported Spinther arcticus "Wirén", which Hartman thought was a junior homonym to S....
Nomenclature Superfluous replacement name for the purported Spinther arcticus "Wirén", which Hartman thought was a junior homonym to S. arcticus (Sars, 1849), based on her interpretation of Graff (1888) and evidently without checking Wirén in original. She wrote "S. arcticus Wirén is a homonym and to be rejected. I propose S. wireni, new name, for the latter species." However, there was no such name created by Wirén, and Wirén's usage was a legitimate usage of Sars' Spinther arcticus name. Wirén did not create a homonym. Later authors (George & Hartmann-Schröder, 1985, Jirkov. 2001, Rouse & Pleijel, 2001) repeated Hartman's error, but Yamamoto & Imajima (1985) had correctly pointed out that Augener (1928) had provided the new name, Spinther vegae, for Spinther arcticus (Sars) sensu Wirén. Augener's proposal solved the unstability, but was hidden in text flow and overlooked by some. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Spinther wireni Hartman, 1948. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332048 on 2024-04-18
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Hartman, O. (1948). The polychaetous annelids of Alaska. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 2(1): 3-58., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/8890
page(s): 16; note: Replacement name for "Spinther arcticus Wiren", but there is no such name to be replaced. [details]
taxonomy source Yamamoto, Ryuta; Imajima, Minoru. (1985). A new species of the genus <i>Spinther</i> (Polychaeta, Spintheridae) from Japan. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Series A (Zoology).</em> 11(3): 129-135., available online at https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/zoology/download/11_3/BNSM110302.pdf
page(s): 129; note: point out that Hartman's 'wireni' is junior to Augener's 'vegae' as a name for Wirén's (misidentified) specimen of S. arcticus ... [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. <em>Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2.</em> 354 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 181; note: repeat the incorrect claim that S. wireni was necessary as a replacement to a homonym created by Wirén [details]
additional source Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin
page(s): 244; note: record as valid with repeat of figures from Graff 1888 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source George, J. D.; Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1985). Polychaetes: British Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida: keys and notes for the identification of the species. <em>Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 32. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07580-1.</em> vii, 221 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 74; note: record as valid with repeat of figures from Graff 1888 [details]
page(s): 16; note: Replacement name for "Spinther arcticus Wiren", but there is no such name to be replaced. [details]
taxonomy source Yamamoto, Ryuta; Imajima, Minoru. (1985). A new species of the genus <i>Spinther</i> (Polychaeta, Spintheridae) from Japan. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Series A (Zoology).</em> 11(3): 129-135., available online at https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/zoology/download/11_3/BNSM110302.pdf
page(s): 129; note: point out that Hartman's 'wireni' is junior to Augener's 'vegae' as a name for Wirén's (misidentified) specimen of S. arcticus ...
point out that Hartman's 'wireni' is junior to Augener's 'vegae' as a name for Wirén's (misidentified) specimen of S. arcticus
[request] additional source Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. <em>Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2.</em> 354 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 181; note: repeat the incorrect claim that S. wireni was necessary as a replacement to a homonym created by Wirén [details]
additional source Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin
page(s): 244; note: record as valid with repeat of figures from Graff 1888 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source George, J. D.; Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1985). Polychaetes: British Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida: keys and notes for the identification of the species. <em>Synopses of the British fauna (new series), 32. E.J. Brill; W. Backhuys: London, UK. ISBN 90-04-07580-1.</em> vii, 221 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 74; note: record as valid with repeat of figures from Graff 1888 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Superfluous replacement name for the purported Spinther arcticus "Wirén", which Hartman thought was a junior homonym to S. arcticus (Sars, 1849), based on her interpretation of Graff (1888) and evidently without checking Wirén in original. She wrote "S. arcticus Wirén is a homonym and to be rejected. I propose S. wireni, new name, for the latter species." However, there was no such name created by Wirén, and Wirén's usage was a legitimate usage of Sars' Spinther arcticus name. Wirén did not create a homonym. Later authors (George & Hartmann-Schröder, 1985, Jirkov. 2001, Rouse & Pleijel, 2001) repeated Hartman's error, but Yamamoto & Imajima (1985) had correctly pointed out that Augener (1928) had provided the new name, Spinther vegae, for Spinther arcticus (Sars) sensu Wirén. Augener's proposal solved the unstability, but was hidden in text flow and overlooked by some. [details]Type specimen Hartman's 'wireni' name is an objective junior synonym of Augener's 'vegae' name. The specimen is that described by Wirén (1883) from the Vega expedition, if it still exists [details]
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Type locality Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea [details]
