Syllis katzmanni Arvanitidis, 2017, nomen novum

Faulwetter, Sarah, Simboura, Nomiki, Katsiaras, Nikolaos, Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos & Arvanitidis, Christos, 2017, Polychaetes of Greece: an updated and annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 20997-20997 : 20997

Syllis katzmanni Arvanitidis, 2017, nomen novum

Langerhansia caeca Katzmann, 1973 | Syllis caeca (Katzmann, 1973) | Syllis katzmanni (Katzmann, 1973) [as a temporary name]

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Reported from Greece by Arvanitidis (1994). The species was originally described as Langerhansia caeca by Katzmann (1973) from the Adriatic. San Martín (1984) synonymised Langerhansia with Syllis , thus Langerhansia caeca Katzmann, 1973 became Syllis caeca (Katzmann, 1973), but the name was preoccupied by Syllis caeca Monro 1933. Arvanitidis (1994) proposed the replacement name Syllis katzmanni in his PhD thesis, which was however never validly published under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). Licher (1999) considered Syllis and Typosyllis two different genera and placed Syllis caeca (Katzmann, 1973) back into Typosyllis , removing the need for a replacement name and thus synonymising the temporary name Syllis katzmanni (Katzmann, 1973) with Typosyllis caeca (Katzmann, 1973). He also considered Syllis caeca Monro, 1933 a nomen dubium (which does not affect the availability of the name). San Martín (2003) re-synonymised Typosyllis with Syllis , so again a replacement name is needed to avoid synonymy with Syllis caeca Monro, 1933. Syllis katzmanni Arvanitidis, 2017 nom. nov. is herewith proposed as a replacement name for Syllis caeca (Katzmann, 1973), a previously unreplaced secondary junior homonym of Syllis caeca Monro, 1933. As no synonyms are available to choose a replacement name, the new epithet katzmanni was chosen in memory of Werner Katzmann (1943-2004), the author of the original name. Records from the Mediterranean given in the literature without an authority likely all belong to Katzmann's species as the type locality of Monro's species is in the Galapagos islands.