BODOTRIIDAE Scott, 1901

Corbera, Jordi, 2006, A new operculate cumacean genus (Bodotriidae, Vaunthompsoniinae) from deep waters of New Caledonia, Zoosystema 28 (2), pp. 325-330 : 326

Family BODOTRIIDAE Scott, 1901 Subfamily VAUNTHOMPSONIINAE Sars, 1878

NOMENCLATURAL REMARKS

The Principle of Priority rules that Vaunthompsoniidae Sars, 1878 has precedence over Bodotriidae

Scott, 1901 when the two names are considered synonyms. The valid name for the family should thus be Vaunthompsoniidae Sars, 1878, with Bodotriinae subordinated at subfamily rank. However, ever since Hale (1944) treated the two names as confamilial, Bodotriidae has been treated as the valid name at family rank, with the senior name Vaunthompsoniinae subordinated at subfamily rank. This was clearly wrong under the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions of the Code. Under the current 4th edition ( ICZN 1999), Art. 35.5rules that “If after 1999 a name in use for a family-group taxon [...] is found to be older than a name in prevailing usage for a taxon at higher rank in the same family-group taxon [...] the older name is not to displace the younger name”. After having consulted with colleagues in the community of cumacean systematists, we maintain here Bodotriidae as the valid name at family rank.