PRUVOTINIDAE Heath, 1911

Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried von, 2008, Contributions to West European Cavibelonia (Mollusca, Solenogastres) with two new species, Zoosystema 30 (4), pp. 873-897 : 883-884

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Family PRUVOTINIDAE Heath View in CoL , 19111

Parameniidae Simroth, 1893b: 225 (type genus preoccupied by the insect genus Paramenia Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 ).

Paramenidae – Pruvot 1902: XXII (incorrect subsequent spelling).

Perimeniidae Nierstrasz, 1909: 298 (as Nierstrasz bases this family on his new genus Perimenia View in CoL , consciously created as a junior synonym of Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903 View in CoL [ Nierstrasz 1909: 291, 292], it cannot be regarded as valid; see Salvini-Plawen [2003b: 48] and ICZN [1999: Art. 23.9.1]).

Pruvotiniidae Heath, 1911: 47 (incorrect original spelling, corrected and available according to ICZN [1999: Art. 35.4.1]: Pruvotinidae View in CoL ).

Pararrhopaliidae Salvini-Plawen, 1972 (based on the oldest genus name, but formally not in accordance with ICZN [1999: Art. 13.2]).

Pararrhopaliidae Salvini-Plawen, 1978 (based on the oldest genus name, but a junior synonym of Pruvotiniidae above).

1 According to Dr P. Bouchet (pers.comm.), the name Pruvotinidae is a junior objective synonym of Perimeniidae Nierstrasz, 1908 , based on Perimenia Nierstrasz, 1908 (a replacement name for Paramenia Pruvot, 1890 , non Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1889 [ Diptera ] and a junior objective synonym of Pruvotina Cockerell, 1903 ). However, the present author cannot follow such a purely formalistic treatment which ignores the familiar use of “pruvotinids” or “ Pruvotina -group” since Heath (1911) established the name Pruvotinidae , and he will present a case to the ICZN to suppress the name Perimeniidae in favour of Pruvotinidae .

DIAGNOSIS. — Solenogastres with acicular sclerites as hollow spicules (needles); radula in each transverse row a pair of erect teeth (= distichous), or without radula; ventral foregut glandular organs generally as subepithelially arranged glands opening into a paired duct (type A); with hooked mantle sclerites and/or a middorsal papillose foregut gland and/or respiratory organs (see Salvini-Plawen 1978, 2003b).