WoRMS name details
original description
Mesnil, Félix; Caullery, Maurice. (1898). Études de morphologie externe chez les annélides. IV. La famille nouvelle des Leviséniens. Révision des Ariciens - affinités des deux familles. Les Apistobranchiens. <em>Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 31: 126-151, plate VI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10708498 page(s): 146; note: As non-latinized "Levinseniens". Levinseniidae is never used by Mesnil & Caullery (1898) [details]
status source
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). (1979). Opinion 1139: <i>Paraonis</i> Grube, 1873 (Polychaeta, Paraonidae): designation of a type species under the plenary powers. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 36(2): 114-118., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12227017 note: gives Paraonidae Cerutti, 1909 precedence over Levinseniidae Mesnil & Caullery, 1898 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Levinseniidae as "Levinséniens nov. fam." The subsequent ICZN decision (1979, opinion 1139) on Paraonidae to give the name precedence over Levinseniidae has no comment on the obvious informal nature of the original French "Levinséniens" as a family name. However, the 1999 ICZN Code, Article 11.7.2 allows unlatinized family names to be available if "generally accepted as valid ... " and to date from the first publication in vernacular form. This was also the rule from the 1961 Code onwards. However, Levinseniidae was never generally accepted as valid, so it did not threaten Paraonidae. [details]
Spelling Cerruti (1909), apparently the first to use (as a synonym) the formal name Levinsenidae, used only one i (-idae) instead of two (-iidae). The double i was used by the ICZN, and earlier by Strelzov (1973), which means they considered the stem of the the name was Levinseni, not Levinsen. [details]
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