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Taxonomy Taxonomists in the 19th Century such as Johnston 1865 placed Cirrhatulus lamarckii under Cirratulus tentaculatus, but Quatrefages (1866) created Audouinia for C lamarckii and A norwegica Quatrefages and 2 other names, without including C. tentaculatus. 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. [details]
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