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WoRMS name detailsCapitella fabricii Blainville, 1828
336389 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336389)
unaccepted > junior objective synonym (Capitella fabricii is a superfluous replacement name for C capitata)
Species
marine,
recent only
Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes <b>[entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]</b>. <em>In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522
page(s): 443 [details] (of Lumbricus capitatus Fabricius, 1780) Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 page(s): 279 [details] 
Nomenclature Junior objective synonym (Capitella fabricii is a superfluous replacement name for C capitata). When Blainville named...
Nomenclature Junior objective synonym (Capitella fabricii is a superfluous replacement name for C capitata). When Blainville named genus Capitella he named the species as Capitella fabricii, a new name for Lumbricus capitatus. The 'fabricii' name is a superfluous replacement name and a junior objective synonym of Lumbricus capitatus (which has a neotype), as Blainville was simply naming a new genus for the species of Fabricius, relying totally on the description by Fabricius. Sometimes early taxonomists may have invented new species group names to avoid creating tautonymous names (names in which genus and species are the same or little different, but it is not known if Blainville attempted a new species name for this reason. He could have instead used a different genus name. It would be anarchy if original species-group names could be replaced by a different species-group name in later publications without a reason. Mostly subsequent taxonomists ignored this name, or only included it as a junior synonym to C. capitata, but Grube (1850) used it as valid. The best synonymy list for Capitella capitata, demonstrating the lack of adoption of Capitella fabricii, is in the British Annelids monograph volume 3 of McIntosh (1915: 281 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Capitella fabricii Blainville, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336389 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes <b>[entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]</b>. <em>In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522 page(s): 443 [details] original description (of Lumbricus capitatus Fabricius, 1780) Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 page(s): 279 [details] Taxonomysource of synonymy
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Junior objective synonym (Capitella fabricii is a superfluous replacement name for C capitata). When Blainville named genus Capitella he named the species as Capitella fabricii, a new name for Lumbricus capitatus. The 'fabricii' name is a superfluous replacement name and a junior objective synonym of Lumbricus capitatus (which has a neotype), as Blainville was simply naming a new genus for the species of Fabricius, relying totally on the description by Fabricius. Sometimes early taxonomists may have invented new species group names to avoid creating tautonymous names (names in which genus and species are the same or little different, but it is not known if Blainville attempted a new species name for this reason. He could have instead used a different genus name. It would be anarchy if original species-group names could be replaced by a different species-group name in later publications without a reason. Mostly subsequent taxonomists ignored this name, or only included it as a junior synonym to C. capitata, but Grube (1850) used it as valid. The best synonymy list for Capitella capitata, demonstrating the lack of adoption of Capitella fabricii, is in the British Annelids monograph volume 3 of McIntosh (1915: 281 [details]
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