Reniera palmata var. taurica Czerniavsky 1880
- Dataset
- Correcting sponge names: nomenclatural update of lower taxa level Porifera
- Rank
- VARIETY
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Microcionidae
- genus
- Reniera
discussion
It is unclear from Czerniavsky’s text where exactly this forma was collected, presumably also in Crimea, but this is not a problem because the combination is invalid on account of having four names (ICZN art. 45.5). If it would have been valid the name would have been a junior secondary homonym of Protoschmidtia transitans Czerniavsky, 1880: 97 (currently Haliclona transitans, cf. Ereskovsky et al. 2016). However, invalid names do not enter into homonymy (ICZN art. 54.1). It is proposed to consider this material to be also referable to Haliclona palmata subsp. pontuseuxiniensis nom. nov.