BAIRDIIDAE Sars, 1888

Maddocks, Rosalie F., 2021, Taxonomic applications of the esophageal flapper valve in the Genus Neonesidea (Bairdioidea, Podocopida, Ostracoda), including descriptions of new and poorly known species from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, Zootaxa 4903 (4), pp. 451-492 : 454

Family BAIRDIIDAE Sars, 1888

1888 Family Bairdiidae Sars : 288.

Nomenclatural Remarks. In an influential review of crustacean classification ( Martin & Davis 2001), the author and date of Family Bairdiidae were incorrectly given as “Sars, 1865.” This error has found its way into recent papers and the online World Ostracoda Database (Brand„o et al. 2018). The issue for 1865 actually appeared in 1866 ( Kempf 1988, p. 309). In that paper, Sars did name three other families ( Conchoeciidae , Polycopidae and Cytherellidae ), but he classified the Genus Bairdia in the Family Cypridae Baird, 1845 ( Sars 1866, p. 19). The spelling of “ Cypridae ” was validly emended to “ Cyprididae ” by Baird (1850, p. 139; see also Swain 1961, p. Q211; Howe 1955, p. 14; 1962, p. 68).

The issue date of Sars’ paper on “ Ostracoda Mediterranea ” was verified as 1888 by Howe (1955, p. 314; 1962, p. 338) during preparation of the Ostracoda volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. The Kraus reprint edition (published in 1969 by Nendeln/ Liechtenstein) states the place and date of publication as “Kristiania 1888.” See also Sylvester-Bradley (1961, p. Q201, Q417), Maddocks (1969, 1995), Maddocks & Iliffe (1986), Maddocks & Wouters (1990), and Brand„o (2008). The date has been erroneously cited as 1887 by Morkhoven (1963, p. 467), Kempf (1988, p. 309), Hartmann (1989, p. 1006), and many others.