2008/09/28 by Paul D. Taylor, Michał Zatoń · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Marine Ecology and Invasive Species #Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species #Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
paper · doi:10.1080/00222930802277640
openalex publication_date 2008/09/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The selection of Tubulipora lobulata Hincks, Citation1880 as type species when establishing Oncousoecia is interpreted as a deliberate misapplication of a name, the nominal species T. lobulata having been originally described by Hassall in Citation1841. Canu is deemed to have created a new nominal species, Oncousoecia lobulata Canu, Citation1918, which is the valid type species of Oncousoecia. Microeciella Taylor and Sequeiros, Citation1982 and Eurystrotos Hayward and Ryland, 1985 have each been used to accommodate similar oncousoeciid species with subcircular colonies. The type species of Eurystrotos, Alecto compacta Norman, Citation1867, has a branching colony‐form and does not differ appreciably from Oncousoecia with which it is here synonymized. Another species, Diastopora suborbicularis Hincks, Citation1880, previously regarded as being a junior synonym of A. compacta Norman, Citation1867 (itself a subjective junior synonym of Alecto dilatans Johnston, Citation1847), has a different ancestrular morphology and an unbranched colony‐form. It is here transferred to Microeciella.