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Homonymy: Junior homonym of Myxobolus elongatus Fujita, 1924 for taxon...

Note "Homonymy: Junior homonym of Myxobolus elongatus Fujita, 1924" for taxon Myxobolus elongatum Ghosh & Bandyopadhyay, 2017 has been added by Bert Hoeksema via the webinterface on...

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Editor's comment: The description of Canthocamptus aequipes is in Russian. It...

Note "Editor's comment: The description of Canthocamptus aequipes is in Russian. It is very short and is accompanied by five figures. It was published in 1877 but the species was not mentioned in Lang...

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Editor's comment: The species seems to be miSsing in Lang (1948). for taxon...

Note "Editor's comment: The species seems to be miSsing in Lang (1948)." for taxon Canthocamptus fontinalis Rehberg, 1880 has been added by Samuel Enrique Gómez-Noguera via the webinterface on...

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Type locality: Russia, South Sakhalin Island, Makarovo District, the...

Note "Type locality: Russia, South Sakhalin Island, Makarovo District, the Makarovka River" for taxon Acila perfecta Slodkevich, 1967 † has been added by Maxim Vinarski via the webinterface on...

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Type locality: Russia, Sakhalin Island, the Krillion Cape, the upper courses...

Note "Type locality: Russia, Sakhalin Island, the Krillion Cape, the upper courses of the Shebuninka River" for taxon Acila elegantiae Slodkevich, 1967 † has been added by Maxim Vinarski via the...

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Status: Teh type specimen was an indeterminable juvenile. According to the...

Note "Status: Teh type specimen was an indeterminable juvenile. According to the figures, it is rather a Solmaris species and not a Cunina. Young Solmaris flavofinis or S. flavescens ?" for taxon...

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Editor's comment: The description of Canthocamptus longicaudatus is in...

Note "Editor's comment: The description of Canthocamptus longicaudatus is in Russian. It is very short and is accompanied by six figures. It was published in 1877 but the species was not mentioned in...

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Spelling: "Baird (1845) transferred the species to the genus Canthocamptus...

Note "Spelling: "Baird (1845) transferred the species to the genus Canthocamptus Westwood, but accidentally wrote Canthocarpus instead of Canthocamptus, which he later corrected (Baird, 1950)." (Lang,...

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Taxonomy: Haeckel 1880 recognized Lesson's species as a box jellyfish rather...

Note "Taxonomy: Haeckel 1880 recognized Lesson's species as a box jellyfish rather than ctenophore and transferred it to the genus Tamoya" for taxon Beroe (Epomis) gargantua Lesson, 1829 has been added...

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Type locality: Choptank river for taxon Tellina biplicata Conrad, 1834 †

Note "Type locality: Choptank river" for taxon Tellina biplicata Conrad, 1834 † has been added by Kurt Auffenberg via the webinterface on 2024-05-03T21:08:33+00:00

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Type locality: Vicinity of Vicksburg for taxon Bulla crassiplica Conrad, 1847 †

Note "Type locality: Vicinity of Vicksburg" for taxon Bulla crassiplica Conrad, 1847 † has been added by Kurt Auffenberg via the webinterface on 2024-05-04T00:09:34+00:00

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Synonymy: According to Korobkov (1954: 121) this is a junior synonym of the...

Note "Synonymy: According to Korobkov (1954: 121) this is a junior synonym of the genus Discors Deshayes" for taxon Nemocardium (Divaricardium) Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1886 † has been added by Maxim...

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Type locality: USA, Alaska, coastal bluffs on the north shore of Popof...

Note "Type locality: USA, Alaska, coastal bluffs on the north shore of Popof Island, Shumagin Islands" for taxon Papyridea harrimani Dall, 1904 † has been added by Maxim Vinarski via the webinterface...

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Etymology: Ichnotaxon Osspecus tuscia is named after the Tuscany region of...

Note "Etymology: Ichnotaxon Osspecus tuscia is named after the Tuscany region of Italy, the source locality of the holotype." for taxon Osspecus tuscia Higgs, Little, Glover, Dahlgren, Smith &...

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Type locality: Borings in probable Mesoplodon Ziphiidae radius bone from,...

Note "Type locality: Borings in probable Mesoplodon Ziphiidae radius bone from, Orciano Pisano area near Pisa, Tuscany. Geolocation not given, bur Orciano Pisano is at 43.4938, 10.5106" for taxon...

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Editor's comment: Osspecus is an ichnotaxon, a trace fossil of an animal's...

Note "Editor's comment: Osspecus is an ichnotaxon, a trace fossil of an animal's activity, not the remnant of an actual animal. Code article 23.7.3. states that: "a name established for an ichnotaxon...

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Etymology: Osspecus is named from the combination of Latin os, bone and...

Note "Etymology: Osspecus is named from the combination of Latin os, bone and specus, cavern. The genus is masculine as 'specus' is masculine." for taxon Osspecus Higgs, Little, Glover, Dahlgren, Smith...

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Grammatical gender: Masculine as 'specus' is masculine for taxon Osspecus...

Note "Grammatical gender: Masculine as 'specus' is masculine" for taxon Osspecus Higgs, Little, Glover, Dahlgren, Smith & Dominici, 2011 † has been added by Geoffrey Read via the webinterface on...

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Nomenclature: The name is invalid because the species has been described in...

Note "Nomenclature: The name is invalid because the species has been described in an online-only journal without registration in Zoobank" for taxon Myxobolus markiwi Kaur & Ahmad, 2016 has been...

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Type locality: Vicinity of Vicksburg for taxon Cypraeorbis sphaeroides...

Note "Type locality: Vicinity of Vicksburg" for taxon Cypraeorbis sphaeroides (Conrad, 1848) † has been added by Kurt Auffenberg via the webinterface on 2024-05-04T16:12:42+00:00

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