Amphipoda taxon details
original description
Karaman, G. S.; Sarbu, S. (1993). A new species of the genus Pontoniphargus Dancau, (Amphipoda, Gammaridea, Family Niphargidae) from Romania, P. ruffoi n. sp. Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di. <em>Verona.</em> 20(2): 569-582. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Pontoniphargus ruffoi Karaman & Sarbu, 1993) Karaman, G. S.; Sarbu, S. (1993). A new species of the genus Pontoniphargus Dancau, (Amphipoda, Gammaridea, Family Niphargidae) from Romania, P. ruffoi n. sp. Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di. <em>Verona.</em> 20(2): 569-582. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Flot, J.-F., Bauermeister, J., Brad, T., Hillebrand-Voiculescu, A., Sarbu, S.M., Dattagupta, S. (2014). Niphargus–Thiothrix associations may be widespread in sulphidic groundwater ecosystems: evidence from southeastern Romania. <em>Molecular Ecology.</em> 23(6):1405–1417., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12461 note: A paper testing species status of this taxon, with additional distributional details. [details]
source of synonymy
Borko, Š.; Collette, M.; Brad, T.; Zakšek, V.; Flot, J.-F.; Vaxevanopoulos, M.; Sarbu, S. M.; Fišer, C. (2019). Amphipods in a Greek cave with sulphidic and non-sulphidic water: phylogenetically clustered and ecologically divergent. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 17(6): 558-572., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2019.1670273 note: A paper, in which original genus Pontoniphargus is synonymized with Niphargus. [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Ecology The species is distributed in sulphidic water. [details]
Etymology The species was originally described as Pontoniphargus ruffoi, in honor of amphipodologist Sandro Ruffo. Discarding Pontoniphargus, however, introduces an additional taxonomic complexity. Pontoniphargus ruffoi should be named N. ruffoi. Yet, a species with identical spelling (N. ruffoi Karaman, 1976) was described from Italy (Karaman, 1976). According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on the Zoological Nomenclature, 2018), this case suits the definition of 'Homonyms in the species group' (Code Art. 53.3), where only the senior homonym, as defined by the Principle of Priority (Code Art. 52.3), can be used as a valid name (Code Art. 53.2). Given that the rejected name has no valid synonym, a new substitute name needs to be established
(Code Art. 23.3.5.) with its own author and date (Code Art. 60.3). [details]
Holotype Podgorica: Karaman`s Collection
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Type locality Hagieni spring, close to town of Mangalia, Dobrogea, Romania [details]
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