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- Title
Type status and taxonomic accounts for Ambiserrula jugosa (McCulloch 1914) and Inegocia harrisii (McCulloch 1914) (Scorpaeniformes: Platycephalidae).
- Authors
Imamura, Hisashi; Hoese, Douglass F.
- Abstract
Platycephalids Ambiserrula jugosa (McCulloch 1914) and Inegocia harrisii (McCulloch 1914) were described as new species based on 10 and 2 specimens, respectively, collected from the coast of Queensland, Australia by the F.I.S. Endeavour in 1910. McCulloch (1914) listed additional specimens at the end of the description, which he did not exclude from the type series. Previous authors considered the specimens, which McCulloch stated the species to have been described from, to be types of the two species, it was revealed that all 43 and 9 specimens included in these species by McCulloch are type specimens, according to the fourth edition of International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, stating "type series of a nominal taxon consists of all the specimens included by the author in the new nominal taxon" in Article 72.4.1. In I. harrisii, it was assumed that a specimen later designated as the lectotype was figured with the original description. Because its plate legend includes the words "sp. nov. Type", the specimen is regarded to be the holotype of the species and the designation of the lectotype was unnecessary. This study newly recognizes additional 12 paratypes of A. jugosa and 5 paratypes of I. harrisii, and gives taxonomic accounts of the two species to show range extensions of intraspecific variation and distribution newly found. Also comments are given about the type status of other species taken by the Endeavour described by McCulloch in a series of five papers.
- Subjects
QUEENSLAND; AUSTRALIA; ZOOLOGICAL nomenclature
- Publication
Ichthyological Research, 2024, Vol 71, Issue 2, p276
- ISSN
1341-8998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10228-023-00929-x