UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Echinoderella steineri Chitwood, 1951

Kinorhyncha name details

Echinoderella steineri Chitwood, 1951

AphiaID

731349 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:731349)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (new combination)

Accepted name

Echinoderes steineri (Chitwood, 1951)

Rank

Species

Parent

Echinoderella Zelinka, 1907 accepted as Echinoderes Claparède, 1863

Original name

Echinoderella steineri Chitwood, 1951

Environment

marine

Original description

Chitwood, B. (1951). Echinoderella steineri new species (Scolecida, Echinodera). The Texas Journal of Science. 3(1): 113-114.
note: Chitwood (1951, p. 114, figure legend), lapsus calami: Echinodella steineri. [details] Available for editors

Descriptive notes

Etymology [Chitwood was an expert in nematology and named the species after the famous nematologist G. Steiner.]

Etymology [Chitwood was an expert in nematology and named the species after the famous nematologist G. Steiner.] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Neuhaus, B. (2021). World Kinorhyncha Database. Echinoderella steineri Chitwood, 1951. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/kinorhyncha/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=731349 on 2025-05-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2013-05-31 11:22:29Z

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Neuhaus, Birger

2020-09-23 09:41:48Z

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Neuhaus, Birger

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original description Chitwood, B. (1951). Echinoderella steineri new species (Scolecida, Echinodera). The Texas Journal of Science. 3(1): 113-114.
note: Chitwood (1951, p. 114, figure legend), lapsus calami: Echinodella steineri. [details] Available for editors

additional source Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors

new combination reference Karling, T.G. (1954). Echinoderes levanderi n. sp. (Kinorhyncha) aus der Ostsee. Arkiv för Zoologi. serie 2, 7, article 10: 189-192.
note: Synonymy according to Karling (1954, p. 191): "Ich schliesse mich aber den Autoren an, die in dem Fehlen oder Vorhandensein von Augen keinen Genus-Charakter erblicken (Remane, p. 345; Nyholm, p. 4; ...

Synonymy according to Karling (1954, p. 191): "Ich schliesse mich aber den Autoren an, die in dem Fehlen oder Vorhandensein von Augen keinen Genus-Charakter erblicken (Remane, p. 345; Nyholm, p. 4; Lang, p. 10) und vereine daher die Gattungen Echinoderella und Echinoderes unter dem letztgenannten Namen." [However I follow those authors, who do not see a genus-specific character in the lack or existence of eyes (Remane, p. 345; Nyholm, p. 4; Lang, p. 10) and therefore unite the genera Echinoderella and Echinoderes under the latter name.]

[details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Syntype uncatalogued, geounit Aransas Bay [details]

From editor or global species database

Etymology [Chitwood was an expert in nematology and named the species after the famous nematologist G. Steiner.] [details]

Synonymy Synonymy according to Karling (1954, p. 191):
"Ich schliesse mich aber den Autoren an, die in dem Fehlen oder Vorhandensein von Augen keinen Genus-Charakter erblicken (Remane, p. 345; Nyholm, p. 4; Lang, p. 10) und vereine daher die Gattungen Echinoderella und Echinoderes unter dem letztgenannten Namen." [However I follow those authors, who do not see a genus-specific character in the lack or existence of eyes (Remane, p. 345; Nyholm, p. 4; Lang, p. 10) and therefore unite the genera Echinoderella and Echinoderes under the latter name.] [details]

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