Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 187 PROPOSED USE OF THE PLENARY POWERS TO DESIGNATE A TYPE SPECIES FOR POL YNOE SAVIGNY, 1818 (ANNELIDA: POLYCHAETA). Z.N.(S.) 2288 By A.I. Muir (Department of Zoology, British Museum, (Natural History), London UK). The generic name Polynoe was first published by Savigny (1818, p. 308), to include five new species and Aphrodita squamata Pallas, 1766. 2. Since 1818, all six originally included species have been removed to other genera (Hartman 1959): SAVIGNY (1818) NAME HARTMAN ( 1 959) NAME Polynoe muricata Iphione muricata (Savigny, 1818) Polynoe squamata Lepidonotus squamatus (Linnaeus, 1767) Polynoe floccosa Lagisca floccosa (Savigny, 1818) Polynoe foliosa Alentia gelatinosa (Sars, 1835) Polynoe impatiens Lepidonotus impatiens (Savigny, 1818) Polynoe setosissima Harmothoe setosissima (Savigny, 1820) 3. In the above tabulation there are two mistakes of author-ship, in that L. squamatus should be credited to (Linnaeus, 1758) and H. setosissima should be credited to Savigny, 1818, but these are not the point of the present appUcation. 4. Savigny (1818) did not designate a type species, although he did spHt the genus into two groups, one consisting of/*, muricata alone, the other containing the remaining five species. 5. The genus Polynoe was next mentioned in print by Savigny, 1822 (p. 20). This pubUcation, although dated 1809, was published in 1822 according to Sherbom (1897) and the British Museum (Natural History) (1913), or in 1820 according to Hartman (1951). In either case this publication post-dates Savigny, 1818. Savigny also produced figures of his P. muricata and P. impatiens as part of this work, in a volume dated 1817, but as they are only described in this volume as polynoes this is not significant nomen-claturally. The precise description of Savigny 's annelid plates is by Audouin, 1826. 6. Savigny, 1822, gives again the six species of Savigny, 1818, with the addition of the new species/'o/>'«oe5co/ope«G?/7na Savigny, 1822 on page 25. On page 26 he says in a long foot-note "Je trouve dans les auteurs beaucoup de polynoe que je n'ai point vues en Bull. zool. Nomencl. vol. 36, part 3, October 1979
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