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WoRMS name details
original description
Johnston, George. (1835). Illustrations in British Zoology. 31. <i>Campóntia erucifórmis</i>. 32. <i>Othònia fabrícii</i>. <em>The Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology.</em> 8(47): 179-183, figs. 18-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2335261
page(s): 181-183; note: original spelling by Johnston as 'Othònia' [details] 
status source
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 117; note: discusses the use of the name in a footnote [details]
From editor or global species database
Type designation Johnston (1835: 182) explicitly designated Tubularia fabricia Müller, 1776 as the type species of Othonia, an intended replacement name for Fabricia Blainville, 1828, which he erroneoulsy considered to be preoccupied: "There are several remarkable pecularities in this species [Tubularia fabricia as Othonia fabricii] [...] all characters which separate it from Sabella [...], and mark it as the type of a distinct genus. This, accordingly, Blainville has established under the name Fabricia, which is, unfortunately, preoccupied in botany." Though, according to ICZN Art. 67.8, "If an author publishes a new genus-group name expressly as a new replacement name (nomen novum) for a previously established name, or replaces a previously established genus-group name by an unjustified emendation [Art. 33.2.3], both the prior nominal taxon and its replacement have the same type species, and type fixation for either applies also to the other, despite any statement to the contrary (see also Article 13.3)." Therefore, the type species of Othonia Johnston, 1835 is Tubularia stellaris Müller, 1774, by monotypy (see also Fitzhugh, 1990). [details]
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