Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Williams, Jason, D. (1998). Case 3080. Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 (Annelida, Polychaeta): proposed conservation of the specific name by a ruling that it is not to be treated as a replacement for P. caeca Webster, 1879, and designation of a lectotype for P. websteri. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 55(4): 212-216.

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Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Williams, Jason, D.

1998

55(4): 212-216

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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12441592

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The purpose of this application is to conserve the specific name of Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 for a boring mudworm (family Spionidae) from coasts of North America. The name was proposed as a replacement for P. caeca Webster, 1879, a junior secondary homonym of P. coeca (Orsted, 1843), which relates to a tube-dwelling spionid. However, P. websteri was based on different material from P. caeca Webster and the names are now known to refer to distinct species. It is proposed that P. websteri should not be treated as a replacement name for P. caeca Webster, and that a lectotype be designated in accord with accustomed usage. Polydora websteri is well known as a borer in the shell of oysters and other commercially important molluscs.

America, North

Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Polychaeta

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