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Issue: Vol. 4729 No. 1: 28 Jan. 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-01-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.11
Page range: 145–146
Abstract views: 117
PDF downloaded: 4

Validation of Owenia vieitezi Díaz-Díaz, Parapar & Moreira, a polychaete from the coast of Venezuela (Annelida: Oweniidae)

Universidad de Oriente, Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Laboratorio de Biología de Poliquetos, Av. Universidad Cerro Colorado—Edif. IOV, Cumaná (Sucre), Venezuela FAUNAMAR Ltda. Consultorías Medio Ambientales e Investigación Marina, Lira 2355, Santiago, Chile
Departamento de Bioloxía Animal, Bioloxía Vexetal e Ecoloxía, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, Rúa da Fraga 10, 15008, A Coruña, España
Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco 28049, Madrid, España Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid E-28049 Madrid, Spain
Annelida Oweniidae

Abstract

Díaz-Díaz et al. (2018) described a new species of oweniid polychaete, Owenia vieitezi, from the north-western coast of the Gulf of Venezuela, Caribbean Sea. Although the description and figures presented by Díaz-Díaz et al. (2018) fully characterize the new species, the journal issue in which the description appeared was published online only and the article in which the new name appeared did not include a ZooBank registration number (LSID), required for validation of new species names in electronic-only publications (ICZN 2012). As a result, the name Owenia vieitezi Díaz-Díaz, Parapar & Moreira, 2018, as published in Cahiers de Biologie Marine 59: 589–597, is not available according the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999, 2012). Therefore, the present note serves to validate the name Owenia vieitezi by fulfilling the ICZN conditions for nomenclatural availability.

 

References

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    ICZN (2012) Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 69, 161–169.

    https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v69i3.a8.161

    Díaz-Díaz, O., Parapar, J. & Moreira, J. (2018) A new species of genus Owenia Delle-Chiaje, 1844 (Annelida; Oweniidae) from the coast of Venezuela. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 59, 589–597.