Status of the names of some hydroid species (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), described from the Atlantic coast of Patagonia

Author(s)

Miranda, Thais P. ; Cunha, Amanda F. ; Marques, Antonio C.

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Zootaxa; v. 4171, n. 3, p. 595-600, SEP 29 2016.
• Web of Science Citations: 2

Abstract

Thirty new species of benthic leptothecate hydroids were described and named from Patagonia in a 1991 PhD dissertation by Mohamed El Beshbeeshy. Although constituting nomina nuda under provisions of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the names of some species were used in several scientific publications between 1991 and 2011. In 2011, the dissertation of El Beshbeeshy was published in accordance with Article 8 of the ICZN. Several species-group names appearing in that work nevertheless fail to fully comply with certain articles of the code. The goal of this contribution is to review the nomenclatural availability of the names of those 30 new taxa, and to clearly establish the current status of El Beshbeeshy's material. Two of them were made available in 1999 as part of studies other than those of El Beshbeeshy, and correct authorship and date is here noted. Twenty-one of the nomina nuda were made available in a work published by El Beshbeeshy in 2011, although some constitute junior synonyms. Six of the new species-group names appearing in both the 1991 and 2011 works, established following a literature review of Patagonian species, were proposed without re-description, or designation of name-bearing types, or locations of such types. Most of them do not meet criteria of availability and remain nomina nuda. The status of each is discussed to avoid additional nomenclatural errors and continued taxonomic confusion. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/24407-5 - Benthic hydroids in sub Antarctic and Antarctic region endemism areas and their dispersion mechanisms influence on marine biogeographic patterns
• Grantee: Thaís Pires Miranda
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 11/22260-9 - Morphological variation and its phylogenetic signal in marine colonial organisms: a study with the family Campanulariidae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)
• Grantee: Amanda Ferreira e Cunha
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 13/50484-4 - Biodiversity and distribution patterns of the Medusozoa form the South-Western Atlantic
• Grantee: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 11/50242-5 - Dimensions of marine life: patterns and process of diversifications in planktonic and benthic cnidarians
• Grantee: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 10/06927-0 - Biodiversity and areas of endemism of benthic hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) from southern South America and Antarctica
• Grantee: Thaís Pires Miranda
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 04/09961-4 - Biodiversity, evolution, endemism and conservation of the Medusozoa from the Southwestern Atlantic
• Grantee: Antonio Carlos Marques
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants