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CaRMS taxon detailsEchiurus Guérin-Méneville, 1831
 110358 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110358)
accepted
Genus
marine,
recent only
masculine
Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1831). Zoophytes. <em>In: Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier : ou, Représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. [Book, 3 volumes].</em> volume 2 & 3. B. Baillière (1829-1844)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27814151
page(s): plate 6, figure 3 of the Zoophytes; note: as Echiurus pallasii (L. Echiurus Gm Pallas) [details]
Note The type species for Echiurus...
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Type species The type species for Echiurus Guérin-Méneville 1831 must be the species name Guérin-Méneville used which was Echiurus pallasii. This was an unnecessary new name for Lumbricus echiurus Pallas, 1766. However Guérin-Méneville was correct to create a new genus name as Lumbricus species are terrestrial earthworms. Nishikawa (1998) commented that Guérin-Méneville later states he "was obliged to give the earlier name [=L. echiurus] a new name [=E. pallasii], because " il etait impossible de l ' appeler Echiurus echiurus Pallas". Of course, the ICZN (Art. 18) does currently allow tautonymous names. This note clearly shows that Echiurus pallasii was first published as an unjustified replacement name for Echiurus echiurus (Pallas). The specific name pallasii is available (ICZN Arts. 12b(3) and lOg), though not valid." Nishikawa then states that the type species of Echiurus is Lumbricus echiurus by monotypy (art 68.3). However, while widely cited as such, for example in the Stephen & Edmonds monograph, this cannot be correct as the name Guérin-Méneville used as valid (he thought) was Echiurus pallasii. While Echiurus pallasii is regarded as a junior synonym of Lumbricus echiurus, it is doubtfully an objective synonym as the specimens illustrated appear different. Guérin-Méneville's plate 6 figure 3 appears original rather than a copy from Pallas's plate 11, figures 1-6 [details]
CaRMS (2025). Echiurus Guérin-Méneville, 1831. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110358 on 2025-05-10
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Echiurus Guérin-Méneville, 1831. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=110358 on 2025-05-10
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Guérin-Méneville, F.E. (1831). Zoophytes. <em>In: Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier : ou, Représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. [Book, 3 volumes].</em> volume 2 & 3. B. Baillière (1829-1844)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27814151
page(s): plate 6, figure 3 of the Zoophytes; note: as Echiurus pallasii (L. Echiurus Gm Pallas) [details] taxonomy source Spengel, Johann Wilhelm. (1912). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Gephyreen, IV. Revision der Gattung Echiurus. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere.</em> 33: 173-212, 1 pl (pl.7 follows p.378)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9965046 [details]  additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  additional source van der Land, J. (2001). Echiura, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 178 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Murina, Vantsetti. List of Echiura. [details] additional source Satô, H. (1939). Studies on the Echiuroidea, Sipunculoidea and Priapuloidea of Japan. <em>Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Fourth Series, Biology.</em> 14 (4): 339–460, plates XIX–XXIII. [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Authority According to Nishikawa (1998) the authority for Echiurus should be Guérin-Méneville (1831), as the name is used there as part of a binominal in plate 6 of the Zoophytes, together with illustration of the species. [details]Type species The type species for Echiurus Guérin-Méneville 1831 must be the species name Guérin-Méneville used which was Echiurus pallasii. This was an unnecessary new name for Lumbricus echiurus Pallas, 1766. However Guérin-Méneville was correct to create a new genus name as Lumbricus species are terrestrial earthworms. Nishikawa (1998) commented that Guérin-Méneville later states he "was obliged to give the earlier name [=L. echiurus] a new name [=E. pallasii], because " il etait impossible de l ' appeler Echiurus echiurus Pallas". Of course, the ICZN (Art. 18) does currently allow tautonymous names. This note clearly shows that Echiurus pallasii was first published as an unjustified replacement name for Echiurus echiurus (Pallas). The specific name pallasii is available (ICZN Arts. 12b(3) and lOg), though not valid." Nishikawa then states that the type species of Echiurus is Lumbricus echiurus by monotypy (art 68.3). However, while widely cited as such, for example in the Stephen & Edmonds monograph, this cannot be correct as the name Guérin-Méneville used as valid (he thought) was Echiurus pallasii. While Echiurus pallasii is regarded as a junior synonym of Lumbricus echiurus, it is doubtfully an objective synonym as the specimens illustrated appear different. Guérin-Méneville's plate 6 figure 3 appears original rather than a copy from Pallas's plate 11, figures 1-6 [details] |
