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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D4C925299FE7EFC32" bold="true" box="[151,409,926,952]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">Hemipholis cordifera</emphasis>
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versus
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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D4DF25299FD14FC32" bold="true" box="[503,755,926,952]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">Hemipholis elongata</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D4C9252E7FE60FC72" box="[151,391,992,1016]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">Hemipholis cordifera</emphasis>
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was described and originally named
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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D4F2B52E7FC1EFC72" box="[814,1017,992,1016]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">Asterias cordifera</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D7793126BD27D480452E7FB64FC7D" author="Bosc" box="[1025,1155,991,1015]" pageId="1" pageNumber="45" refString="Bosc, L. A. G. (1802) Histoire naturelle des vers, contenant leur description et leurs moeurs; avec figures dessinees d'apres nature. Vol. 2. Chez Deterville, de l'imprimerie de Guilleminet, Paris, 300 pp." type="book" year="1802">Bosc, 1802</bibRefCitation>
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, by the French naturalist Bosc, who reported its occurrence off the coast of
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Carolina (
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)
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. Bosc did not designate a
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, and specimens that he examined have not been located at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), the Natural History Museum (London), or the National Museum of Natural History (Washington, DC) (C. Ahearn, A. Cabrinovic, and M. Eléaume, pers. comm.). This is not surprising as Bosc reported that dried specimens were difficult to conserve. Moreover,
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specimens of other marine invertebrates that he named have been lost (e.g.,
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,
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, Wormuth 1988). Bosc provided a brief description and a rather imprecise figure of
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.
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, but he specified that individuals have five arms that are nine times longer than the disk, round gray disk scales with white borders, cordiform radial shields separated by three small scales, and five slender arms with three white spines that are shorter than the arms width. Although he neglected to mention several distinguishing features of
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species, such as nearly naked interradii and the absence of bursal slits and infradental papillae, all of the features that he cited, especially the characteristic pairs of heart-shaped radial shields, match those of the Western Atlantic
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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D4D265497FE43FA22" box="[291,420,1424,1448]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">Hemipholis</emphasis>
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species. Particularly compelling was Boscs account of extensile red tentacles beneath the arm (“qui salonge à la volonté de lanimal”) (
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). Similar tube feet filled with red coelomocytes have been reported in only three species of North American ophiuroids (
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Christensen
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), of which
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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D491754DEFA7BFA7A" box="[1298,1436,1496,1520]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">H. cordifera</emphasis>
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alone has five arms. It is the sole species from Carolina with the precise suite of features specified by Bosc, and is known as the “blood brittle star” (Ruppert &amp; Fox 1998:70) because of its red tube feet.
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A putative species of
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<emphasis id="B978D670126BD27D4DB95743FDDAF9D6" box="[444,573,1604,1628]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="45">Hemipholis</emphasis>
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collected from Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, was described and originally named
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, by the American naturalist Say, a contemporary of Bosc.
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did not designate a
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, and specimens of
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that he studied are not in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia where they were presumed to be deposited (
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,
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,
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); neither are they in the Natural History Museum (London) where some of Says crustacean
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specimens reside (
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). Say reported that the species has a pentagonal, finely scaled disk five mm in diameter, and slender arms about
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long with ovoid dorsal arm plates, quadrate ventral arm plates, and three, short, blunt arm spines. The only potentially diagnostic detail that he mentioned is that the arm spines are “hardly more than equal to half the width of the segment; the intermediate spine … more obtuse than the others, and … minutely echinated.” In contrast, the spines of
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are tapered rather than obtuse or echinulate. In comparison with Boscs reasonably informative account, Says description of
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is so vague that the species identity is indeterminable, even to family. Furthermore, Says (1825:146) assertion that the “species inhabits Gorgoniae” along with
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(
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is perplexing, since
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invariably burrows in soft sediment.
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found that in Charleston Harbor, “It is gregarious, living in companies of twenty or thirty. The existence of these groups is indicated at low water by spaces of about a foot in diameter covered with small holes, looking very much as if a charge of shot had been fired into them. If these spots are watched as the tide rises, from each hole an arm of the star-fishes will be seen to protrude and wave about in the water, with the red tentacular filaments, by which the respiration is effected, clothing the sides.” Thus, nothing in Says description shows that
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. elongata
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is a
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4D865077FDE3FE02" box="[387,516,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Hemipholis</emphasis>
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species, or that it is identical to
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F775076FC61FE02" box="[882,902,369,392]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H</emphasis>
.
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or another South Carolinian species, or that it resembles any ophiuroid species that is epizoic on gorgonians. Since the name cannot be interpreted, one must conclude that
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. elongata
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and equivalent combinations such as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4FC650BEFBACFE5A" box="[963,1099,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. elongata</emphasis>
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are
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, names of unknown application.
</paragraph>
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Discrepancies in the allocation of the species names first came to light when
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transferred ophiuroids that he regarded as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4DEA5323FD5EFDB6" box="[495,697,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Asterias cordifera</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4EEA5323FC50FDB6" box="[751,951,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Ophiura elongata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to the genus
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E48485323FB5AFDB6" box="[1101,1213,548,572]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiura</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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soon realized that specimens from Charleston, South Carolina, which Lütken had identified as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E48B9534FFA72FDEA" box="[1212,1429,584,608]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiura elongata</emphasis>
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, must have been the species that Bosc named
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4E9D536BFC84FD0E" box="[664,867,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Asterias cordifera</emphasis>
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. Additionally, Lyman recognized that it was actually a new species of ophiuroid from St. Thomas, The
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, which
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had identified as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4C9253B3FE93FD46" box="[151,372,692,716]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiura cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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a result, Lyman advocated that the species from South Carolina should be called
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E492953B3FF19FD7A" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Amphiuridae" genus="Amphiura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E492953B3FF19FD7A" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiura cordifera</emphasis>
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, and that a new name was required for the species from St. Thomas, and after consultation he reported that “Dr. Lütken agrees with me … and wishes to change the name
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E4F8C53FBFB49FC9E" authority="Ltk." authorityName="Ltk." box="[905,1198,764,788]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Amphiuridae" genus="Amphiura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F8C53FBFB80FC9E" box="[905,1127,764,788]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiura cordifera</emphasis>
(Ltk.)
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[i.e., the name of the West Indian specimens misidentified as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4E525227FD3AFCB2" box="[599,733,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">A. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
] to
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F0C5227FC27FCB2" box="[777,960,800,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiura Riisei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, (Ltk.)” (
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E482D5218FB0AFCBD" author="Lyman" box="[1064,1261,799,823]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Lyman, T. (1860) Descriptions of new Ophiuridae, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution and to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, 7, 193 - 205, 252 - 262, 424 - 425." type="journal article" year="1860">Lyman 1860:258</bibRefCitation>
). Subsequently,
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transferred
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4DB25243FDE8FCD6" box="[439,527,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">A. riisei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to his newly erected genus
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F425243FC25FCD6" box="[839,962,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiodia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4FEB5243FB4DFCD6" box="[1006,1194,836,860]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Amphiodia riisei</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E48BD5243FAB4FCD6" author="Lutken" box="[1208,1363,836,860]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Lutken, C. F. (1859) Additamenta ad historiam Ophiuridarum. Beskrivelser af nye eller hidtil kun ufuldstaendigt kjendte Arter af Slangestjerner. Anden Afdeling. Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter. Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk Afdeling, Ser. 5, 5 (1861), 177 - 271, pls. 1 - 5." type="journal article" year="1859">Lütken, 1859</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BB30A621268D27E4CC25260FA92FA16" blockId="2.[151,1437,151,1436]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">
When
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erected the new genus
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<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E4EB0526FFCDEFC0A" box="[693,825,872,896]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" genus="Hemipholis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">Hemipholis</taxonomicName>
,
</emphasis>
he fixed
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4FA3526FFBCBFC0A" box="[934,1068,872,896]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">A. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as its
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species by monotypy. It is regrettable that he treated
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4DF3528AFDEDFC2E" box="[502,522,909,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">O</emphasis>
</collectingCountry>
.
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4E1C528BFD9CFC2E" box="[537,635,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">elongata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a junior synonym of
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F96528AFBF9FC2E" box="[915,1054,908,932]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
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without providing a justification, and it is not known whether Lyman or his contemporaries ever examined specimens that Say himself had identified as
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4CB352D2FEDBFC66" box="[182,316,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">
<collectingCountry id="F31B4AF21268D27E4CB352D2FF2AFC66" box="[182,205,981,1004]" name="Iceland" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">O</collectingCountry>
. elongata
</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Regardless, the name
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4E4152D2FD28FC66" box="[580,719,980,1004]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
remained in general use until
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, who misconstrued Lymans evidence regarding priority of publication and who accepted Lütkens mistaken identifications of
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4C92551BFEFAFBBE" box="[151,285,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">A. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4D56551BFE33FBBE" box="[339,468,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">A. elongata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, erroneously substituted the name
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F5C551AFC3AFBBE" box="[857,989,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. elongata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
“instead of
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4861551AFB0AFBBE" box="[1124,1261,1052,1076]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
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, under which it is usually known.” Regrettably,
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accepted Koehlers ill-advised decision in his “Catalog of Recent ophiurans,” which still serves as a standard reference for ophiuroid nomenclature. Other authors followed suit, and when
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E4D40558FFE23FB2A" author="Fell" box="[325,452,1160,1184]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Fell, H. B. (1960) Synoptic keys to the genera of Ophiuroidea. Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington, 26, 1 - 44." type="journal article" year="1960">Fell (1960)</bibRefCitation>
transferred
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<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4E4B558FFD28FB2A" box="[590,719,1160,1184]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Hemipholis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
to the
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E4F24558FFC4CFB2A" box="[801,939,1160,1184]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="family">Ophiactidae</taxonomicName>
, he cited
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E481F558EFB78FB2A" box="[1050,1183,1160,1184]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Amphiuridae" genus="Amphiura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="elongata">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E481F558EFB78FB2A" box="[1050,1183,1160,1184]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. elongata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as the
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species of the genus. Recently,
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E4D7A55AAFDEFFB4E" box="[383,520,1196,1220]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Amphiuridae" genus="Amphiura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4D7A55AAFDEFFB4E" box="[383,520,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has been treated as a
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4EF955AAFC4DFB4E" box="[764,938,1196,1220]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">nomen oblitum,</emphasis>
a forgotten name, based on the presumption that it had not been used in the literature since 1899 (
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E4EE655C8FC82FB6D" author="Stohr" box="[739,869,1231,1255]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Stohr, S. (2010) Hemipholis cordifera (Bosc, 1802). In: Stohr, S., O'Hara, T. (Eds.), World Ophiuroidea database. Available from http: // www. marinespecies. org / ophiuroidea / aphia. php? p = taxdetails &amp; id = 243274 (accessed 1 June 2011)." type="book chapter" year="2010">Stöhr 2010</bibRefCitation>
). However, the name
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E485355D6FB39FB62" box="[1110,1246,1232,1256]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Amphiuridae" genus="Amphiura" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E485355D6FB39FB62" box="[1110,1246,1232,1256]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was indeed used after 1899 by
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E4D3355F3FE06FA86" author="Ludwig" box="[310,481,1268,1292]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Ludwig, H. (1904) Brutpflege bei Echinodermen. Zoologischer Jahrbucher, Suppl. 7, 683 - 699." type="book chapter" year="1904">Ludwig (1904)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E4DEB55F3FD7AFA86" author="Koehler" box="[494,669,1268,1292]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Koehler, R. (1907) Revision de la Collection des Ophiures du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 41, 279 - 351, pls. 10 - 14." type="journal article" year="1907">Koehler (1907)</bibRefCitation>
, and by
<bibRefCitation id="EF9D77931268D27E4EFB55F2FC3AFA86" author="Mortensen" box="[766,989,1268,1292]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" refString="Mortensen, T. (1920) On hermaphroditism in viviparous ophiuroids. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm), 1, 1 - 18, pl. 1." type="journal article" year="1920">Mortensen (1920:4)</bibRefCitation>
who pointedly referred to
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E490855F4FAFCFA86" bold="true" box="[1293,1307,1267,1292]" pageId="2" pageNumber="46"></emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E491E55F3FF19FABA" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" genus="Hemipholis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E491E55F3FF19FABA" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Hemipholis cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, or as it should be named according to H.L. Clark
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E4F54541FFB6FFAA5" authority="Say" authorityName="Say" box="[849,1160,1303,1328]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" genus="Hemipholis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="elongata">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4F54541FFBD9FABA" box="[849,1086,1304,1328]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Hemipholis elongata</emphasis>
(Say)
</taxonomicName>
.” Consequently,
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E494C541EFF3DFADE" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" genus="Hemipholis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E494C541EFF3DFADE" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is not an eligible
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4D9B543AFDA3FADE" box="[414,580,1340,1364]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">nomen oblitum</emphasis>
since the name does not meet the conditions set in Articles 23.9.1 and 23.9.2 of the ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999). Rather, in accordance with the Principle of Priority,
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E4D455482FE2EFA16" box="[320,457,1412,1436]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" genus="Hemipholis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="species" species="cordifera">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E4D455482FE2EFA16" box="[320,457,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">H. cordifera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
should be deemed the correct name for the Western Atlantic species of
<taxonomicName id="4C0C71E11268D27E48E85483FA89FA16" box="[1261,1390,1412,1436]" class="Ophiuroidea" family="Ophiactidae" genus="Hemipholis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ophiurida" pageId="2" pageNumber="46" phylum="Echinodermata" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B978D6701268D27E48E85483FA89FA16" box="[1261,1390,1412,1436]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="46">Hemipholis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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