Parasabella Bush, 1905

Tovar-Hernandez, Maria Ana & Harris, Leslie H., 2010, Parasabella Bush, 1905, replacement name for the polychaete genus Demonax Kinberg, 1867 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Sabellidae), ZooKeys 60, pp. 13-19 : 14-16

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scientific name	Parasabella Bush, 1905
status	reestablished

Treatment

Parasabella Bush, 1905 reestablished

Demonax Kinberg 1867: 354 (not Thomson 1860); 1910: 72.- Johansson 1925: 26-27; 1927: 136.- Knight-Jones 1983: 254.- Perkins 1984: 292 –293.– Knight-Jones and Walker 1985: 605.- Fitzhugh 1989: 75 –76.– Giangrande 1994: 229-230.

Parasabella Bush 1905: 191, 199 –200.– Johansson 1927: 136.

Distylidia Hartman 1961: 129.- Fauchald 1977: 138.- Banse 1979: 870.

Type species:

Demonax krusensterni , subsequent designation by Bush (1905).

Remarks:

Kinberg (1867) described the new genus Demonax for four new species: Demonax krusensterni and Demonax cooki from Honolulu, Demonax leucaspis from San Lorenzo and Demonax incertus from Valparaíso, and Demonax tilosaulus (Schmarda, 1861) also from Valparaíso. The specimen reported by Kinberg as Demonax tilosaulus (not Sabella tilosaula Schmarda, 1861) is a Chone species according to Hartman (1959: 514). As Perkins (1984) noted, designation of Demonax krusensterni as the type-species by Bush (1905) was unfortunate since figures of the other three new species were published posthumously in the second part of Kinberg’s paper on the polychaetes of the Eugenie Expedition ( Kinberg 1910) and the holotype of Demonax krusensterni is in poor condition ( Johansson 1925, Perkins 1984).

Johansson (1925) reexamined Kinberg’s Demonax types and commented that Demonax leucaspis , Demonax incertus ,and Demonax cooki and questionable Demonax krusensterni were all exemplars of a single species. In 1927, Johansson included these species in synonymy under Demonax leucaspis , with Demonax krusensterni as a questionable synonym. Hartman (1959), following Johansson (1927), designated Demonax leucaspis as the type-species, a mistake that violates Article 69 of the ICZN (1999). Fauchald (1977) and Banse (1979) followed Hartman (1959) while Knight-Jones (1983), Perkins (1984), Fitzhugh (1989), Giangrande (1994) and Gambi et al. (2001) considered Demonax krusensterni as the type-species of Demonax . Knight-Jones (1983) suggested that the syntypes of Demonax cooki could well be juvenile specimens of Demonax krusensterni showing regeneration after damage. Perkins (1984) included Demonax incertus , Demonax cooki and questionably Demonax krusensterni under the name Demonax leucaspis .