Issue 15617

Phyllophorella queenslandica info wrong!

15617
Reporter: feedback bot
Type: Bug
Summary: Phyllophorella queenslandica info wrong!
Priority: Critical
Status: Open
Created: 2014-05-15 12:17:22.18
Updated: 2014-12-02 09:35:33.648
        
        
Description: Hello, I'm Peter aka Shirt58, a Wikipedia editor and administrator.

I'm currently writing the Wikipedia article for this critter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophorella queenslandica

At present the taxonomic info here (http://www.gbif.org/species/5097384) is  Animalia › Echinodermata › Holothuroidea › Dendrochirotida › Phyllophoridae › Phyllophorella

There is an Echinoderm genus Phyllophorella of the family Phyllophoridae, but P. queenslandica is a katydid, not a sea cucumber.

References:
* http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/details/species/id/7679259
* http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8162dd1d-1ddf-419a-aa45-85254bd3e1df
* http://eol.org/pages/16250873/overview

A number of the GBIF nodes seem to gave gotten this mixed up - see http://eol.org/pages/87467/overview

*Reporter*: Peter aka Shirt58
*E-mail*: [mailto:wp.shirt.58@gmail.com]]]>
    


Author: rdmpage
Created: 2014-12-02 09:35:33.648
Updated: 2014-12-02 09:35:33.648
        
Looks to be a case of unrecognised homonyms, see http://bionames.org/search/Phyllophorella. I've not seen the original description of the sea cucumber, but I gather it was originally a subgenus and only raised to genus level in 2012[1], so this may have contributed to the homonymy with the earlier katydid name being missed.

[1] O’Loughlin PM, Barmos S, Vandenspiegel D (2012) The phyllophorid sea cucumbers of southern Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida: Phyllophoridae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69: 269–308. http://bionames.org/references/ff9444f74d9ecabf3ef1ab1f067fadf4