Porifera taxon details
original description
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): 17 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969) Lévi, C. (1969). Spongiaires du Vema Seamount (Atlantique Sud). <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 41(4): 952-973. page(s): 959-960 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Nomenclature We cite here Van Soest et al.'s (2020: 17) explanation for the proposed nomen novum.
Removal of homonymy between Chondrocladia clavatum (Hansen, 1885) and Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969.
1. Desmacidon clavatum Hansen, 1885: 14 (type locality Norwegian Sea, North Atlantic). Desmacidon clavatum Hansen, 1885 (= Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) clavata) was synonymised with Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879: 204) (Hestetun et al. 2017: 14) but is also the senior primary homonym of Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969.
2. Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969: 959 (type locality Vema Seamount, South Atlantic). The deepwater species Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969 is a junior primary homonym of Desmacidon clavatum Hansen, 1885. Despite the fact that Hansen’s species is a junior synonym of Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879), Levi’s name is permanently unavailable (ICZN Art. 57.2). While Lévi’s species resembles Fibulia carnosa Carter, 1886 (the type species of the genus Fibulia Carter, 1886 and a shallow-water species from Port Phillip Heads, Victoria; see Van Soest 2002: 569), their synonymy has not been proposed so far, but as a junior homonym Lévi’s species requires a new name regardless.
3. Summary: Chondrocladia clavatum (Hansen, 1885) is the senior primary homonym of Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969, and a junior synonym of Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879). Its accepted name should be maintained (ICZN Art. 57.2). Desmacidon clavata Lévi, 1969 is a junior primary homonym of Desmacidon clavatum Hansen, 1885 and in the absence of a published synonym requires a new name (ICZN Art. 57.2, 60.3) for which Desmacidon levii nom. nov. was proposed, named after Claude Lévi. [details]
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