WoRMS name details
Sabella pacifica Fewkes, 1889
336458 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336458)
unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination, also unnecessarily replaced by Dodecaceria fewkesi for homonymy)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Fewkes, J. W. (1889). New invertebrata from the coast of California. <em>Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem.</em> 21(7,8,9): 99-146, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11711150
page(s): 36-37, plate VII figs. 1-2 [details]
page(s): 36-37, plate VII figs. 1-2 [details]
Note Pacific Ocean, southern California
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
Nomenclature Hartman (1944) and Berkeley & Berkeley (1954) believed that Sabella pacifica was preoccupied by Sabella pacifici Grube,...
Nomenclature Hartman (1944) and Berkeley & Berkeley (1954) believed that Sabella pacifica was preoccupied by Sabella pacifici Grube, 1859 (note 'pacifici' spelling) and thus Hartman substituted probable junior synonym Dodecaceria fistulicola Ehlers, 1901, and the Berkeley's replaced the original name 'pacifica' with their 'fewkesi'. These authors did not discuss Grube's spelling of 'pacifici' or even mention it. However, the rarely used 'pacifici' (perhaps intended as a genitive modification of the ocean name?) is not a gender variant of the much-used adjective pacificus -a -um, the spellings would never match, and a single letter difference suffices to prevent homonymy (article 57.6 ) except for those exceptions included in Article 58, thus the replacement name seems to have been unnecessary, although now the accepted name in usages. Article 58.14 which does mention a genitive 'i" comes closest to a match, but the possible homonymy to be evaluated is with a double ii name versus a single i name, so not relevant. There is apparently no Code article dealing with not revalidating a name discovered to have been unnecessarily/wrongly replaced in relation to supposed primary homonymy. If a name does not fit the definition of a homonym (article 53) a mistake has been made, rules applying to homonymy are not relevant to the names, and the original name should prevail. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Sabella pacifica Fewkes, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336458 on 2024-04-20
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original description
Fewkes, J. W. (1889). New invertebrata from the coast of California. <em>Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem.</em> 21(7,8,9): 99-146, plates 1-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11711150
page(s): 36-37, plate VII figs. 1-2 [details]
source of synonymy Berkeley, E.; Berkeley, C. (1954). Notes on the life-history of the polychaete Dodecaceria fewkesi (nom.n.). <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 11(3): 326-334., available online at https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f54-021#.WAg498mBuCM [details] Available for editors
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status source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(2): 239-307, plates 19-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4680190
page(s): 262; note: claim that Sabella pacifica is preoccupied by Sabella pacifici [details]
page(s): 36-37, plate VII figs. 1-2 [details]
source of synonymy Berkeley, E.; Berkeley, C. (1954). Notes on the life-history of the polychaete Dodecaceria fewkesi (nom.n.). <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 11(3): 326-334., available online at https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f54-021#.WAg498mBuCM [details] Available for editors
[request] status source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(2): 239-307, plates 19-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4680190
page(s): 262; note: claim that Sabella pacifica is preoccupied by Sabella pacifici [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Hartman (1944) and Berkeley & Berkeley (1954) believed that Sabella pacifica was preoccupied by Sabella pacifici Grube, 1859 (note 'pacifici' spelling) and thus Hartman substituted probable junior synonym Dodecaceria fistulicola Ehlers, 1901, and the Berkeley's replaced the original name 'pacifica' with their 'fewkesi'. These authors did not discuss Grube's spelling of 'pacifici' or even mention it. However, the rarely used 'pacifici' (perhaps intended as a genitive modification of the ocean name?) is not a gender variant of the much-used adjective pacificus -a -um, the spellings would never match, and a single letter difference suffices to prevent homonymy (article 57.6 ) except for those exceptions included in Article 58, thus the replacement name seems to have been unnecessary, although now the accepted name in usages. Article 58.14 which does mention a genitive 'i" comes closest to a match, but the possible homonymy to be evaluated is with a double ii name versus a single i name, so not relevant. There is apparently no Code article dealing with not revalidating a name discovered to have been unnecessarily/wrongly replaced in relation to supposed primary homonymy. If a name does not fit the definition of a homonym (article 53) a mistake has been made, rules applying to homonymy are not relevant to the names, and the original name should prevail. [details]From other sources
Type locality Pacific Ocean, southern California [details]
