Reniera palmata var. taurica Czerniavsky 1880 ...

• Main Author: Van Soest, Rob W. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Porifera; Demospongiae; Poecilosclerida; Microcionidae; Reniera; Reniera palmata; Reniera palmata var. taurica czerniavsky, 1880; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10580398; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10580398

Reniera palmata var. taurica Czerniavsky, 1880 (Fig. 4K) Reniera palmata var. taurica Czerniavsky, 1880: 120, pl. I (V) fig. 1. Somewhat in contrast to Czerniavsky’s text, I assume he meant the species palmata to be sensu Lieberķhn 1859 (= R. palmata Schmidt, 1862: 74), and not sensu Ellis & Solander (1786: 186). Regarding the name Reniera palmata (sensu Lieberķhn 1859) the following consideration is here made: the Mediterranean name palmata is a misapplication by Lieberķhn of Spongia palmata Ellis & Solander, 1786 (a North Atlantic species currently accepted as Isodictya palmata). Johnston (1842) used the combination Halichondria palmata for Isodictya palmata, and this was also used by Lieberķhn, but this time for a different species from the Adriatic Sea. Schmidt (1862: 74) assigned Lieberķhn’s misapplication to his genus Reniera (currently a junior name for Haliclona Grant, 1841) and his Reniera palmata is in fact a new combination (as Schmidt indeed asserted himself by using ‘nobis’ for the ... : Published as part of Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 5398 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5398.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10494167 ...