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THE Research item headed “Antarctic Echinoidea” (NATURE, Feb. 19, p. 294) says: “Antipneustes is a name that replaces Amphipneustes Koehler 1901 to avoid confusion with the unknown Amphipneustea Wiegmann.” Since the name Amphipneustea was as unknown to me as to the writer of that note, I have taken some trouble, with the help of Mr. C. D. Sherborn, to get to the bottom of the puzzle. First of all, it appears that the name Antipneustes was proposed, at Prof. Koehler's request, on p. 427 of Lambert and Thiéry, “Essai de nomenclature raisonnée des Échinides,” published in 1924, but only just obtained for the Natural History Museum. The supposedly conflicting name Amphipneustea is, on p. 428 of that work, credited to Wiegmann, 1837, without further reference. The “Nomenclator” of Agassiz helps one to track this down to A. F. A. Wiegmann and Ruthe, 1832, “Handbuch der Zoologie,” p. 527. The name, however, is applied to a family of Pulmonate Mollusca, and therefore could not conflict with Amphipneustes Koehler, even if the spelling were the same. It may be mentioned that, in 1820, B. Merrem, “Tent. Syst. Amph.,” gave the name Amphipneusta to a family of Reptilia.
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BATHER, F. Amphipneustes. Nature 119, 460 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119460c0
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