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WANTON changes in the nomenclature of animals are so injurious to zoology by confusing its literature, and so heavily handicap the study of systematic problems, that I seek the publicity of NATURE for the exposure of a particularly flagrant case. This is the synonymic List of British Nudibranchiate Mollusca by Iredale and O'Donoghue1, the nomenclature of which was adopted in the last edition of the “Plymouth Marine Fauna” of the Marine Biological Association (1931). My attention was directed to it by noticing that some extraordinary names for these animals were being used by recent workers at Plymouth, who naturally followed the guidance of the Association's official “Fauna”.
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GARSTANG, W. Nomenclature of Nudibranchiate Mollusca. Nature 144, 481 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144481a0
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