Just a mild reminder: The current Code does not do anything about names
above the family-level and poor old Echiuridae has been used as a family, in
a rather more restricted sense of course, among the cognoscenti. Thus,
picking up an old family name and emending it, which is something we
routinely have been doing for years, is not on nomenclatoral grounds
unusual. It is however, somewhat unusual to see a changed usage start in a
paper on larval feeding bands. It should lead to studies of the relationships
between the annelids as currently recognized and their relatives; hopefully
with new information added, and that would be very good indeed. The
position of the echiurans in relation to the polychaetes is not at all easy to
resolve on morphological grounds.
Kristian Fauchald
<Fauchald.Kristian at NMNH.SI.EDU>
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