Case
3305 (see Comments & Opinion
2167)
TUBIFICIDAE
Vejdovský, 1876 (Annelida,
Clitellata): proposed precedence
over NAIDIDAE Ehrenberg, 1828
Christer Erséus
Department of Zoology, Göteborg
University, Box 463,
SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
(e-mail: christer.erseus@zool.gu.se)
Lena Gustavsson
Department of Invertebrate
Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural
History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm,
Sweden
(e-mail: lena.gustavsson@nrm.se)
Ralph O. Brinkhurst
3570 Cainsville Rd, Lebanon,
TN 37090, U.S.A. (e-mail:
oligo1@aol.com)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under
Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is
to conserve the usage of the family-group
name TUBIFICIDAE Vejdovský,
1876 for a well known group of
aquatic oligochaetous clitellates.
Following recent molecular studies
it has been concluded that NAIDIDAE
Ehrenberg, 1828 is a phylogenetic
member of the taxon previously
referred to as TUBIFICIDAE, implying
that these two names are synonyms.
Both names have long been used
by aquatic biologists as associated
with two functionally separated
groups of worms. The junior name
TUBIFICIDAE, with the famous Tubifex worm
as its type, has been used for about
800 benthic species, which are burrowing
or living interstitially in various
limnic and marine sediments. The
senior name NAIDIDAE, on the other
hand, has been referred to about
175 species, most of which are epibenthic
or epiphytic in freshwater habitats.
It is proposed that the family-group
name TUBIFICIDAE be given precedence
over NAIDIDAE.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Annelida; Oligochaeta;
Clitellata; NAIDIDAE; TUBIFICIDAE; Nais; Tubifex;
sludge worms.
Case
3297 (see Comments & Opinion
2169)
Sphyraena
acus Lacepède, 1803
(currently Tylosurus acus)
(Teleostei, BELONIDAE): proposed
reinstatement
Bruce B. Collette
National Marine Fisheries Service
Systematics Laboratory, National
Museum of Natural History, MRC
0153, Smithsonian Institution,
PO Box
37012, Washington, D.C. 20013–7012,
U.S.A. (e-mail: collettb@si.edu)
N. V. Parin
P.P. Shirshov Institute of
Oceanology, Russian Academy of
Sciences,
36 Nachimovskii Pr., 117851,
Moscow, Russia (e-mail:
nparin@sio.rssi.ru)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under
Article 80.9 of the Code, is to reinstate
the oldest available name, Sphyraena
acus Lacepède, 1803,
for a nearly worldwide species of
needlefish. The name was suppressed
and placed on the Official Index
of Rejected and Invalid Names in
Zoology in Opinion 900.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; BELONIDAE; Tylosurus
acus; needlefish.
Case
3348 (see Comments 63:1, 63:2, 63:3)
Palamopus E.
Hitchcock, 1845 (Ichnotaxa, Reptilia?):
proposed conservation
Emma
C. Rainforth
School of Theoretical and Applied
Science, Ramapo College of New
Jersey, 505 Ramapo Valley Road,
Mahwah, NJ 07430, U.S.A.
(e-mail: erainfor@ramapo.edu)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under
Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to
conserve the name of the reptilian(?)
ichnogenus Palamopus E.
Hitchcock, 1845. Palamopus is
a junior objective synonym of Sauroidichnites E.
Hitchcock, 1837, but Palamopus is
in prevailing use and it is proposed
that it be conserved by suppression
of Sauroidichnites.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; ichnotaxa; Reptilia?; Ornithichnites; Sauroidichnites; Palamopus; Palamopus
palmatus; tetrapod footprints;
Triassic, Jurassic.
