A second contribution to the idea that some slavish code wrangling might
require Flabelligeridae to be replaced by Pherusidae:
My reading of the intent of the current code is that (Article 40, for events
that occurred before 1961) once genus A is selected as the basis for the
family name, if it is found to have a senior synonym, genus B, then it is
genus B which becomes the family name. This is what happens in the
example given under Article 40. I assume this to have effectively happened
to the chloraemids/flabelligerids (Chloraema/Flabelligera). It is probably
irrelevant (except for date of first use) that Saint-Joseph had used the
name for the family in 1894. The Chloraemidae becomes the
Flabelligeridae because Chloraema is now regarded as the same set of
animals as the earlier-published Flabelligera. One indeed does not need to
go looking for older or other genera. Also, one does not look for family
names proposed subsequent to the first publication of a recognisable
variant of the name Chloraemidae.
Fred Pleijel was interested in a FAMILY name, that is the Pherusea of
Grube, 1850. Older than Flabelligeridae, but not, I hope, older than
Chloraemidae. My point earlier was that if the FAMILY name, the
Chlorhemiens of Quatrefages' 1849 paper title, apparently pre-dating
Grube by one year and used in connection with genus Chloraema, was
regarded as the original and sufficient proposal of Chloraemidae then
there is no problem with continuing to use its replacement name
Flabelligeridae. The Chloraema-based family name was used by authors
subsequently (e.g Quatrefages himself, and McIntosh) before Saint-
Joseph's Flabelligeriens came along. But, I wonder, did anyone use
Pherusea again?
--
Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>
Whose tongue finds Flabelligeridae quite the worst family name to
pronounce!
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