WoRMS name details

Laenilla fulgens Fauvel, 1936

339002  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339002)

 unaccepted > unavailable name (published as a synonym and subsequently unused pre 1961 (Article 11.6))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fauvel, Pierre. (1936). Polychètes. <em>Expédition Antarctique Belge. Résultats du Voyage de la "Belgica" en 1897-99 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery. Zoologie.</em> Anvers, J.-E. Buschmann. pp. 1-44, plate I., available online at https://bit.ly/2mr8IMB
page(s): 9; note: unavailable name published in synonymy to Antinoe antarctica (Bergstrom, 1916) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Type locality contained in Southern Ocean  
type locality contained in Southern Ocean [details]
Note Antarctic Ocean, offshore Antarctica west of...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Antarctic Ocean, offshore Antarctica west of the Antarctic Peninsula, -71.2333, -89.2333. [details]
Nomenclature The history and authorship of Laenilla fulgens is complex, and it is explained here why it is an unavailable name. It was...  
Nomenclature The history and authorship of Laenilla fulgens is complex, and it is explained here why it is an unavailable name. It was a manuscript name of Pruvot published unwisely in a text flow mention by Fauvel (1936: 9) as a synonym of Antinoe antarctica (Bergström), and it subsequently remained unused as valid prior to the Code transition date of 1961. Therefore it is an unavailable name (Code Article 11.6 dealing with names first published as synonyms). Fauvel did partly describe Pruvot's specimens but he wrote (in transl) "Specimens 307, 384, and 396, which Pruvot referred to as Laenilla fulgens, do not differ from the others only by their ventral bristles a little less tapering and less feathery at the end. There is also a little less difference between the upper dorsal setae and lower. The head, feet and elytra are similar (Pl. I, figs. ii-i3). There is therefore instead no making of them two distinct species; at most we could keep a fulgens variety". Later Averintsev (1972) appears to have incorrectly interpreted this aside as the definite creation of a variety. However Fauvel (1936) had also written "This form was indeed new when Pruvot was studying it (1906) but [his] notes, his drawings, as well as the examination of the material still extant, leave no doubt that it is the Austrolaenilla antarctica described by Bergström in 1916." Fauvel did not accept there was a species Laenilla fulgens, but Code recommendations 50C & 51F allow reference to a L fulgens Fauvel if necessary if the unavailable status is also made evident.
Laenilla fulgens was (as far as is known) not adopted as a valid name subsequently in any combination (before 1961). The Hartman catalogue (1959: 83) had listed the name as a synonym of Antinoella antarctica (Bergström). Then Hartman (1964: 15) used the name as Antinoella antarctica fulgens (Fauvel, 1936) with Laenilla fulgens Fauvel as the original name. However, as explained above, Fauvel (1936) did not regard that name as valid and Article 11.6 requires the name of 1936 to be treated as unavailable. The first 'fulgens' name to be available appears to be Antinoella antarctica fulgens Hartman, 1964 (q.v., a now available name for which Hartman thus gains the authorship). Hartman's name was created as a subspecies, not a variety (varieties became unavailable names after 1960), so is available. [G. Read, March 2023] [details]

Taxonomy an unavailable name as published (at best) as a synonym  
Taxonomy an unavailable name as published (at best) as a synonym [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Laenilla fulgens Fauvel, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339002 on 2024-03-28
Date
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2023-03-08 01:49:48Z
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original description Fauvel, Pierre. (1936). Polychètes. <em>Expédition Antarctique Belge. Résultats du Voyage de la "Belgica" en 1897-99 sous le commandement de A. de Gerlache de Gomery. Zoologie.</em> Anvers, J.-E. Buschmann. pp. 1-44, plate I., available online at https://bit.ly/2mr8IMB
page(s): 9; note: unavailable name published in synonymy to Antinoe antarctica (Bergstrom, 1916) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

status source Hartman, O. 1964. Polychaeta Errantia of Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, 3: 1-131., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/AR003
page(s): 15; note: Hartman (post 1961) uses the 'fulgens' name as Antinoella antarctica fulgens, a subspecies, the first use of the name as valid. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Nomenclature The history and authorship of Laenilla fulgens is complex, and it is explained here why it is an unavailable name. It was a manuscript name of Pruvot published unwisely in a text flow mention by Fauvel (1936: 9) as a synonym of Antinoe antarctica (Bergström), and it subsequently remained unused as valid prior to the Code transition date of 1961. Therefore it is an unavailable name (Code Article 11.6 dealing with names first published as synonyms). Fauvel did partly describe Pruvot's specimens but he wrote (in transl) "Specimens 307, 384, and 396, which Pruvot referred to as Laenilla fulgens, do not differ from the others only by their ventral bristles a little less tapering and less feathery at the end. There is also a little less difference between the upper dorsal setae and lower. The head, feet and elytra are similar (Pl. I, figs. ii-i3). There is therefore instead no making of them two distinct species; at most we could keep a fulgens variety". Later Averintsev (1972) appears to have incorrectly interpreted this aside as the definite creation of a variety. However Fauvel (1936) had also written "This form was indeed new when Pruvot was studying it (1906) but [his] notes, his drawings, as well as the examination of the material still extant, leave no doubt that it is the Austrolaenilla antarctica described by Bergström in 1916." Fauvel did not accept there was a species Laenilla fulgens, but Code recommendations 50C & 51F allow reference to a L fulgens Fauvel if necessary if the unavailable status is also made evident.
Laenilla fulgens was (as far as is known) not adopted as a valid name subsequently in any combination (before 1961). The Hartman catalogue (1959: 83) had listed the name as a synonym of Antinoella antarctica (Bergström). Then Hartman (1964: 15) used the name as Antinoella antarctica fulgens (Fauvel, 1936) with Laenilla fulgens Fauvel as the original name. However, as explained above, Fauvel (1936) did not regard that name as valid and Article 11.6 requires the name of 1936 to be treated as unavailable. The first 'fulgens' name to be available appears to be Antinoella antarctica fulgens Hartman, 1964 (q.v., a now available name for which Hartman thus gains the authorship). Hartman's name was created as a subspecies, not a variety (varieties became unavailable names after 1960), so is available. [G. Read, March 2023] [details]

Taxonomy an unavailable name as published (at best) as a synonym [details]

Type locality Antarctic Ocean, offshore Antarctica west of the Antarctic Peninsula, -71.2333, -89.2333. [details]