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Pisionidae Ehlers, 1901

996  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:996)

 unaccepted (subjective rank downgrade to subfamily in Sigalionidae)
Family
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ehlers, E. (1901). Die Polychaeten des magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes. Ein faunistischer Versuch. <em>Festschrift zur Feier des Hundertfünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse.</em> 1-232, 25 plates., available online at http://www.annelida.net/docs/Ehlers1901_PolychaetenMagellanischenChilenischenStrandes.pdf
page(s): 60 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Pisionidae Ehlers, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=996 on 2024-10-31
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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db_admin
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2012-09-19 03:31:54Z
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2015-01-15 21:20:44Z
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2021-04-02 02:44:49Z
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original description Ehlers, E. (1901). Die Polychaeten des magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes. Ein faunistischer Versuch. <em>Festschrift zur Feier des Hundertfünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse.</em> 1-232, 25 plates., available online at http://www.annelida.net/docs/Ehlers1901_PolychaetenMagellanischenChilenischenStrandes.pdf
page(s): 60 [details] 

taxonomy source Gonzalez, Brett C.; Martínez, Alejandro; Borda, Elizabeth; Iliffe, Thomas M.; Eibye-Jacobsen, Danny; Worsaae, Katrine. (2018). Phylogeny and systematics of Aphroditiformia. <em>Cladistics.</em> 34(3): 225-259., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12202/full
note: placed as subfamily Pisioninae [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] 

additional source Gonzalez, Brett C.; Petersen, Haidi Cecilie B.; Di Domenico, Maikon; Martínez, Alejandro; Armenteros, Maickel; García-Machado, Erik; Møller, Peter Rask; Worsaae, Katrine. (2017). Phylogeny and biogeography of the scaleless scale worm Pisione (Sigalionidae, Annelida). <em>Ecology and Evolution.</em> 1-22 [online before print, 22 March 2017]., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.2853/abstract
note: molecular and morphological cladistics [details] 

additional source Hartman, O. (1939). Polychaetous annelids. Part I. Aphroditidae to Pisionidae. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 7(1): 1-156., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822254
page(s): 89; note: Here Hartman incorrectly has Levinsen as author of family [details] 

additional source Southern, R. (1914). Clare Island Survey. Archiannelida and Polychaeta. <em>Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.</em> 31(47): 1-160., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34773787
page(s): 60 [details] 

additional source Rouse, G. W.; Pleijel, F. (2001). Polychaetes. <em>Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK [etc.]. ISBN 0-19-850608-2.</em> 354 pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 82 [details] 

additional source Beesley, P.L.; Ross, G.J.B.; Glasby, C.J. (eds). (2000). Polychaetes & Allies: the Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia: Volume 4A. Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. <em>[Book].</em> CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne xii 465pp., available online at http://www.environment.gov.au/science/abrs/publications/fauna-of-australia/fauna-4a
page(s): 148 [details] 

source of synonymy Norlinder, Erika; Nygren, Arne; Wiklund, Helena; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2012). Phylogeny of scale-worms (Aphroditiformia, Annelida), assessed from 18SrRNA, 28SrRNA, 16SrRNA, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), and morphology. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 65(2): 490-500., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.002
page(s): 499 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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Authority Authority corrected to Ehlers (1901). Rouse & Pleijel (2001:84) pointed out that Southern (1914) is not the author, contrary to the wide modern usage derived from the Hartman catalogue (1959:124) and repeated in the Fauchald 1977 guide. Southern himself had stated that Levinsen (1887) had created the family name, but this is not correct either. However, widely used monographs by Fauvel (1923), Hartman (1939), and Day (1967), and the Australian "Polychaetes & Allies" overview by Hutchings also incorrectly named Levinsen as the family author.
A serious further confusion is created by Gonzalez et al (2018) where several mentions state that Grube is the author of Pisionidae. He is not. First they state that Rouse & Pleijel (2001) and Fauchald (1977) have Grube as the author of Pisionidae (those authors do not have Grube as the author), then (p.227) state that ‘Pisionidae’ was first described by Grube (1857). The latter mention is actually simply to Grube's new genus Pisione, placed by Grube in the Phyllodocidae. [details]

Classification Subfamily status as Pisioninae. Molecular reports on the position of Pisione and Pisionidae in 2012 and 2017 simply stated that Pisionidae is a synonym of Sigalionidae. There was no suggestion that the name be maintained as a subfamily in Sigalionidae, although this might be convenient. Later Gonzalez et al (2018: 245) formally re-ranked Pisionidae as Pisioninae in Sigalionidae. Those authors also stated the name Pisionidae was (still) a synonym of Sigalionidae (p.244), but this is not now correct subsequent to the rank change. Changes in family-level rank are not synonymies, as the original name continues as valid, with rank change indicated by the change in suffix. Elsewhere in the same work Gonzalez et al (2018: 245) state that Pisionidae is "Pisionidae nom. supp.", but this is also incorrect (and bizarre). Only the ICZN can suppress a name, and Pisionidae continues with merely changed rank to Pisioninae. Any taxonomist can later treat Pisionidae as a full family again if they think that is justified. [details]

Editor's comment As well as Pisione, the other minor genera apparently belonging in Pisionidae (Anoplopisione, Fauveliella (synonym of Pisionidens?), Pisionella Hartman, Pisionella Aiyar & Alikunhi [homonym], Genera Praegeria (synonym of Pisione), Pisionidens, and Sylloides) were moved to Sigalionidae in 2012 to follow the family-level synonymy proposed by Norlinder et al (2012). Caveat: Norlinder et al's 2012 examination was restricted to characters of Pisione and Pisionidens. Subsequently Gonzalez et al (2018) continued Pisionidae as subfamily Pisioninae in Sigalionidae. [details]
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Japanese スナゴカイ科  [details]
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