Chydoridae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 emend. Frey, 1967

Damme, Kay Van, Kotov, Alexey A. & Dumont, Henri J., 2010, A checklist of names in Alona Baird 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) and their current status: an analysis of the taxonomy of a lump genus 2330, Zootaxa 2330, pp. 1-63 : 14-15

Family Chydoridae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 emend. Frey, 1967 Subfamily Aloninae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 emend. Frey, 1967

Note on the authorship of the Chydoridae . It is widely accepted that Stebbing (1902) is the author of the family Chydoridae ( Smirnov 1971, 1996a), hence in all publications, this family is referred to as Chydoridae Stebbing, 1902 . However, Dybowski & Grochowski (1894) already created "Grupa Chydorinae Nob. ", together with "Grupa Eurycercinae Kurz", "Grupa Acroperinae Nob.", "Grupa Aloninae Nob. " and "Grupa Pleuroxinae Nob." within the (original) family Lynceidae . Among these, the Eurycercidae is now regarded as a separate family and the Aloninae as a subfamily of the Chydoridae (see Dumont & Silva-Briano 1998). However, the Chydorinae , as a subfamily of Lynceidae , was also created by Dybowski & Grochowski (1894), its status validated both logically and grammatically (ae) by the authors. Dybowski & Grochowski (1894) did not assign the type genus in their text, but the type species of the Chydorinae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 is Chydorus (as "the name-bearing type of a nominal family-group taxon", Article 63 of ICZN 1999). So, the Chydorinae (as a subfamily) was typified by Dybowski & Grochowski (1894). Like the Aloninae , which in recent understanding ( Frey 1967, Smirnov 1971, 1996a) includes two goups named by Dybowski & Grochowski, "Grupa Aloninae " and "Grupa Acroperinae", the Chydorinae includes "Grupa Chydorinae " and "Grupa Pleuroxinae" ( Monospilus was transferred from the Chydorinae to Aloninae ). The Family Chydoridae , used in Stebbing (1902) must be regarded as a result of raising the Chydorinae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 to higher rank; this "family-group taxon" has priority over any others, should keep the original authors and is based on Chydorus as the type genus. Hence, “ Chydoridae Stebbing, 1902 ” is a junior homonym of “ Chydorinae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 ”, raised to family level, this is “ Chydoridae Dybowski & Grochowski, 1894 ”.