Plakostrella Gazave, Lapébie, Ereskovsky, Vacelet, Renard, Cárdenas & Borchiellini (2012)

Van Soest, Rob W. M., 2024, Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera, Zootaxa 5398 (1), pp. 1-122 : 91

Plakostrella Gazave, Lapébie, Ereskovsky, Vacelet, Renard, Cárdenas & Borchiellini (2012)

Plakostrella Gazave, Lapébie, Ereskovsky, Vacelet, Renard, Cárdenas & Borchiellini, 2012 : supplement 10750, 2011, 842, MOESM1, ESM, p. 2.

This ‘genus’ was erected under the rules of the Phylocode, which does not recognize ranks or type species. The ‘definition’ of Plakostrella is quoted from the original paper: ‘(nomen cladi novum) (apomorphy-based) the clade originating with the first species to have alophose spicules as inherited by Plakortis simplex Schulze, 1880 ’. The ‘genus’ name is here considered unavailable, and the contents are to be reverted to the synonymy of genus Plakortis , until their status as members of Homosclerophorida have been made under the Code of the ICZN. Phylocode and Linnean classifications show fundamental differences. The WPD and WoRMS have committed themselves to the latter.