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Alexander Doweld
National Institute of Carpology (Gaertnerian Institution), Directorate, Department Member
- Botany, Palaeobotany, Palaeontology, Palaeogeography, Systematic Botany, Taxonomy, History of Botany, Bibliography, and 36 moreBotanical Nomenclature, Pteridosperms, Plant Systematics, Algae systematics and taxonomy, Cactaceae, Palynology, Plant Morphology, Seed Morphology, Carpology, Protists systematics, Seed Anatomy, Origin & Phylogeny of Angiosperms, Fungi Systematics, Club-Mosses, Jurinodendron Lycopodiophyta Cyclostigma, Ordovician echinoderms, Geology, Earth Sciences, History of Science, Museum Studies, Gender History, Phytoplankton ecology and distribution, Fossil collectors, Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, Marine Ecology, Paleoclimatology, Paleobotany, Morphological evolution, Botanica, Zoologia, Paleobiology, Evolution, Philosophy of Science, Anatomy, and Biologyedit
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The genus Sphenaster was erected by Jeffery (in Smith et al. 1999: 131) for a distinctive fossil echinoid of the Thanetian (Palaeocene) age from Spain and considered to be the most ancient element of the echinoid family AEROPSIDAE Clark,... more
The genus Sphenaster was erected by Jeffery (in Smith et al. 1999: 131) for a distinctive fossil echinoid of the Thanetian (Palaeocene) age from Spain and considered to be the most ancient element of the echinoid family AEROPSIDAE Clark, 1917 (Spatangida, Echinoidea). Unfortunately, up to now (Kroh 2010), it was not realized that the generic name Sphenaster is invalid, being a junior homonym of Sphenaster Wilcoxon, 1970: 80, a genus of fossil protist (HAPTOMONADA).
As the protistan generic name Sphenaster Wilcoxon, 1970 is nomenclaturally available in zoology and still recognized in modern protistology and palaeoalgology (as a member of the HAPTOMONADA), a new generic name is necessary for the fossil echinoidean genus. To resolve this homonymy, in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (‘the Code’ below), a new replacement name is here proposed for Sphenaster Jeffery, 1999 nec Wilcoxon, 1970.
As the protistan generic name Sphenaster Wilcoxon, 1970 is nomenclaturally available in zoology and still recognized in modern protistology and palaeoalgology (as a member of the HAPTOMONADA), a new generic name is necessary for the fossil echinoidean genus. To resolve this homonymy, in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (‘the Code’ below), a new replacement name is here proposed for Sphenaster Jeffery, 1999 nec Wilcoxon, 1970.
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The genus Disparella (D. fusiformis Fedorov, 1987, by original designation) was established in Fedorov and Pereladov [1] for distinctive fossil spiculae of sponges from NorthEastern Siberia of Cambrian age. However, Hessler [2] , a living... more
The genus Disparella (D. fusiformis Fedorov, 1987, by original designation) was established in Fedorov and Pereladov [1] for distinctive fossil spiculae of sponges from NorthEastern Siberia of Cambrian age. However, Hessler [2] , a living isopod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Isopoda: Asellota: Desmosomatidae), preceded fossil generic name, which becomes a preoccupied later homonym.
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Recently it was found (Doweld 2016) that the generic name Aenigma Kuznetsova (1957: 68; type species A. jucunda Kuznetsova, by original designation) of fossil Ostracoda from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Tegchaj, North-Eastern... more
Recently it was found (Doweld 2016) that the generic name Aenigma Kuznetsova (1957: 68; type species A. jucunda Kuznetsova, by original designation) of fossil Ostracoda from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Tegchaj, North-Eastern Azerbaijan, former USSR (Transcaucasia), is already preoccupied by a marine gastropod molluscan generic name Aenigma Newman (1836: 499), which is in active current use in zoology (Coleoptera: Carabidae), along with a few
other known homonyms, Aenigma Amsel (1956: 288) [Lepidoptera], Aenigma Koch (in Martini & Chemnitz 1846: 1, unpaginated) [Mollusca], Aenigma Karsch (1878: 825) [Arachnida], Aenigma Strecker (1876: 122) [Lepidoptera]. Therefore, a new replacement name was proposed, Kuznetsovia Doweld (2016: 68). However, it was overlooked that this
generic name is already preoccupied by Kuznetsovia Kammerer (2006: 269) [Arthropoda], escaped from Nomenclator Zoologicus and Zoobank. In this connection, to resolve unexpected homonymy with an arthropod generic name, in accordance with article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), a new replacement name is proposed for the fossil Ostracoda genus.
other known homonyms, Aenigma Amsel (1956: 288) [Lepidoptera], Aenigma Koch (in Martini & Chemnitz 1846: 1, unpaginated) [Mollusca], Aenigma Karsch (1878: 825) [Arachnida], Aenigma Strecker (1876: 122) [Lepidoptera]. Therefore, a new replacement name was proposed, Kuznetsovia Doweld (2016: 68). However, it was overlooked that this
generic name is already preoccupied by Kuznetsovia Kammerer (2006: 269) [Arthropoda], escaped from Nomenclator Zoologicus and Zoobank. In this connection, to resolve unexpected homonymy with an arthropod generic name, in accordance with article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), a new replacement name is proposed for the fossil Ostracoda genus.
Research Interests: Paleontology, Ostracoda Systematics, Ostracodology, Palaeontology, Invertebrate Paleontology, and 13 moreHistory of Palaeontology, Palaeontology，Sedimentology，stratigraphy, Ostracods, Paleontologia, Invertebrate Palaeontology, Geology and Paleontology, Ostracodes, Paleontología, Late Creaceous ostracods, Cretaceous Ostracoda USA, Ostracoda, Study of ostracods..........their taxonomy, affinity and palaeoecology, and Ostracod taxonomy
The book contains an outline of the phylogenetic system of Vascular plants (Tracheophyta) in the form of Syllabus of all validly published from 1753 family, (super-, sub-) ordinal, (sub)class, and (sub)phylum names, including for the... more
The book contains an outline of the phylogenetic system of Vascular plants (Tracheophyta) in the form of Syllabus of all validly published from 1753 family, (super-, sub-) ordinal, (sub)class, and (sub)phylum names, including for the first time revised and summarized fossil suprageneric names. The Prosyllabus covers all vascular plants, including fossil, for the period of cca. 420 mln years (Upper Silurian-Extant). The Prosyllabus Tracheophytorum is published in the anticipation of the issuance in 2003 of New Syllabus of Plant Families (A Plant World System) [in English], which has been initiated by German botanist Adolf Engler in 1892 (as Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien) and served as a main source of systematic botany for the nearly half of XX century.22 phyla of vascular plants (including extinct forms) contain 2857 validly published names of families, orders, superorders, (sub-)classes as on December, 2001. Descriptive, illegitimate and invalidly published suprageneric names were omitted. An accepted system summarized molecular phylogenetics, carpology and seed anatomy in particular, for the system of flowering plants, ferns, club-mosses, conifers, cycads and fossil vascular plants.A revised detailed system of Eukaryota is also added with 481 analogous suprageneric names: the Eukaryota is considered as a domain (empire) of organisms, splitted into two subdomains, Chlorota (plant-like organisms aggregated into 5 kingdoms, Euglenobiota, Peridiniobiota, Bacillariobiota, Rhodymeniobiota, Chlorobiota) and Zoota (animals and fungi in 6 kingdoms, viz. Amoebobiota, Mucorobiota, Trichoplacobiota, Spongiobiota, Hydrobiota, Zoobiota). 504 new suprageneric names (from family to botanical kingdoms) are validated according to provisions of both International Codes of Botanical and Zoological Nomenclature; Protozoa were abandoned as polyphyletic taxon and replaced with numerous new phyla, subregnums and regnums. A comprehensive bibliography (671 entries) covers all papers and books in which where validly published all summarized suprageneric names for the period of cca. 250 years (since 1753). For botanists, zoologists, palaeontologists (palaeobotanists), protistologists, molecular biologists, all interested in botanical and zoological nomenclature and phylogenetic systematics.
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The nomenclature of some fossil and extant homonymic species of Aralia is resolved. Aralia laevis J. Wen (extant) is replaced by a new name A. indonesica nom. nov., because of earlier homonym, A. laevis E.M.Reid (fossil). Aralia debilis... more
The nomenclature of some fossil and extant homonymic species of Aralia is resolved. Aralia laevis J. Wen (extant) is replaced by a new name A. indonesica nom. nov., because of earlier homonym, A. laevis E.M.Reid (fossil). Aralia debilis J. Wen is rehabilitated as a legitimate substitute to the later homonym, A. elegans Ho, due to the existence of several earlier homonyms, the extant A. elegans Linden ex Koch, A. elegans Cunn. ex W.Hill and A. elegans Hort. ex Saporta, and the fossil A. elegans Velenovský. Additional four new replacement names are proposed for fossil species based on endocarp remains from the Miocene sediments of Siberia: Aralia asiatica nom. nov. for A. rugosa Dorofeev non Blume, A. mammuthica nom. nov. for A. dubia V.P. Nikitin non Sprengel nec Fontaine, A. borealis nom. nov. for A. tertiaria Dorofeev non Pilar, and A. tobolica nom. nov. for A. lucida Dorofeev non Hasskarl. The later homonym A. angustiloba Kolakovsky non Lesquereux, based on the fossil foliage from...
Research Interests: Paleontology, Paleobotany, Biology, Palaeontology, Palaeobotany, and 12 moreQuaternary palaeontology, History of Palaeontology, Paleontologia, Paleobotanical, Paleobotanica, Geology and Paleontology, Paleobotánica, Araliaceae, paleobotany palynology stratigraphy Cretaceous, Paleontología, Mesozoic paleobotany, and Cenozoic Palaeontology
The generic name Aenigma was proposed by Kuznetsova (1957: 68; type species A. jucunda Kuznetsova, by original designation) for a new fossil ostracod genus from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Tegchaj, North-Eastern Azerbaijan, former... more
The generic name Aenigma was proposed by Kuznetsova (1957: 68; type species A. jucunda Kuznetsova, by original designation) for a new fossil ostracod genus from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) of Tegchaj, North-Eastern Azerbaijan, former USSR (Transcaucasia). However, this name is already preoccupied by a marine gastropod molluscan generic name Aenigma Newman (1836: 499), which is in active current use in zoology (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Besides this earliest generic name, a few homonyms were also known: Aenigma Amsel (1956: 288) [Lepidoptera], Aenigma Koch (in Martin & Chemnitz 1846: 1, unpaginated) [Mollusca], Aenigma Karsch (1878: 825) [Arachnida], Aenigma Strecker (1876: 122) [Lepidoptera].
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Silene novorossica Doweld (Caryophyllaceae) is proposed as a new replacement name for the fossil Silene mirabilis Negru (1986) non Rouy & Foucaud (1896).
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The creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, 2014 onwards) with the aim of listing of all fossil plant species reveals a few new cases of homonymy between fossil and extant species. In the present paper there are... more
The creation of the International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI, 2014 onwards) with the aim of listing of all fossil plant species reveals a few new cases of homonymy between fossil and extant species. In the present paper there are proposed two new combinations in Hemitrapa Miki (1941: 289) and four replacing names for later homonyms of Trapa Linnaeus (1753: 120) that are illegitimate (Art. 53.1 of the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants—ICN, McNeill et al. , 2012).
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Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Zoology, Paleontology, Taxonomy, Biology, and 13 moreBiodiversity, Palaeontology, Corals, Invertebrate Paleontology, Anthozoa, Animals, Cephalopoda, Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology, Paleontologia, Fossil Corals, Invertebrate Palaeontology, Zoological nomenclature, and Paleontología
The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI) is a new global on–line data base [http://fossilplants.info/about] of fossil names of plants, algae, fungi, allied prokaryotic forms (formerly treated as algae and Сyanophyceae),... more
The International Fossil Plant Names Index (IFPNI) is a new global on–line data base [http://fossilplants.info/about] of fossil names of plants, algae, fungi, allied prokaryotic forms (formerly treated as algae and Сyanophyceae), algae–related protists and fossil microproblematica (so–called ‘ambiregnal’ organisms). IFPNI as a new platform provides an online, open–access, and community–generated registry of fossil plant nomenclature as a service to the global scientific community. One of the goals of the IFPNI was also to compile and maintain a comprehensive literature based record of these fossil scientific names and bank of author names in palaeobotany. IFPNI fulfils existed gap in modern systematic botany lacking comprehensive indices of fossil plant names.
Research Interests: History of Paleontology, Paleobotany, Botanical literature, Palaeontology, Palaeobotany, and 15 morePalaeozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology, Paleobotanical, Palaeobotany Palmaceae, Paleobotanica, Geology and Paleontology, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Paleobotánica, Botanical Nomenclature, Mesozoic paleobotany, Palaeobotany and Nomenclature, Gondwana Palaeobotany, Cathaysia Palaeobotany, Palaeobotany Myrtaceae, Paleobotant, and Paléobotanique
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The genus Choanophorus (type species C. indicus Bubko, by original designation) was established by Bubko for a distinctive annelid (Siboglinidae) from the Indian Ocean. However, Choanophorus Caballero, a living helminth, preceded annelid... more
The genus Choanophorus (type species C. indicus Bubko, by original designation) was established by Bubko for a distinctive annelid (Siboglinidae) from the Indian Ocean. However, Choanophorus Caballero, a living helminth, preceded annelid generic name, which becomes a preoccupied later homonym. The helminth Choanophorus is well recognized in modern zoology, served even in the past a type of a distinct family Choanophoridae Caballero, but now recognized in family Pronocephalidae Looss as a distinct genus in current use, and in this connection a new generic designation is necessary for later homonymic annelid genus.
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A new generic name, Aulacomela Doweld, is proposed as replacement name for junior homonym Aulacochlamys Monros 1952 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) non Margalef 1946 (Protista: Prasinomonada).
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The genus Disparella (D. fusiformis Fedorov, 1987, by original designation) was established in Fedorov and Pereladov for distinctive fossil spiculae of sponges from North-Eastern Siberia of Cambrian age. However, Hessler, a living isopod... more
The genus Disparella (D. fusiformis Fedorov, 1987, by original designation) was established in Fedorov and Pereladov for distinctive fossil spiculae of sponges from North-Eastern Siberia of Cambrian age. However, Hessler, a living isopod (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Isopoda: Asellota: Desmosomatidae), preceded fossil generic name, which becomes a preoccupied later homonym. The isopod Disparella is well recognized in modern zoology and in current use, and in this connection a new generic designation is necessary for later homonymic fossil genus. To resolve homonymy, in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Kuonamia nom. nov. (Type species Disparella fusiformis Fedorov, 1987) is here proposed as a replacement name for Disparella Fedorov non Hessler.
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ABSTRACT. Carpology and phermatology of Gomortega (Gomortegaceae): Systematic and evolutionary implications. The anatomy and morphology of the fruits and seeds of Gotnortega keule (Mol.) Baill., comprising a monotypic genus in the... more
ABSTRACT. Carpology and phermatology of Gomortega (Gomortegaceae): Systematic and evolutionary implications. The anatomy and morphology of the fruits and seeds of Gotnortega keule (Mol.) Baill., comprising a monotypic genus in the monogeneric family Gomortegaceae Reiche, have been studied in an effort to clarify its systematic position. The fruits are fleshy inferior cocnocarpous drupines, giving the appearance (due to the lateral concrescence of spirally arranged 2-6 carpels) of mostly 2-3-locular or rarely pseudomonomcrous syncarpous fruit. Seeds are flattened, exarillatc, abundantly albuminous with a small embryo, originate from hemianatropous crassinucellate, bitegmic ovules. The seed coat is endotestal- endotegmic; the endotesta, only testal layer preserved in the mature spermoderm, is of tracheotestal type, having peculiar numerous spiral or annular projections penetrating into the cell cavities. Evidence, mainly from seed anatomy and morphology, emphasizes phylogenetic unity ...
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Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, History of Paleontology, Paleobotany, Plant Biology, and 12 morePalynology, Palaeobotany, Paleontologia, Paleobotanical, Paleobotanica, Geology and Paleontology, Paleobotánica, Paleontología, Palynology Neogene Quaternary, Palaeobotany and Nomenclature, Palynologie, and Taxon
Research Interests: Botany, Evolutionary Biology, History of Paleontology, Botanical literature, Palaeontology, and 15 morePalaeobotany, Botanical History, History of Palaeontology, Botanica, History of Botany, Botanica sistematica, Geology and Paleontology, BOTANICA TAXONOMICA, Botánica, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Botânica, paleobotany palynology stratigraphy Cretaceous, Botanical Nomenclature, Cenozoic Palaeontology, and Botanique
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, History of Paleontology, Paleobotany, Biology, Angiosperm Taxonomy, and 15 morePalaeontology, Palaeobotany, Fossils, Fossil Pollen, Paleobotanical, Fossil Plants, Paleobotanica, Angiosperms, Angiosperm, Paleobotánica, paleobotany palynology stratigraphy Cretaceous, Mesozoic paleobotany, Cenozoic Palaeontology, Palaeobotany and Nomenclature, and Paléobotanique
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, History of Paleontology, Biology, Angiosperm Taxonomy, Palaeontology, and 15 moreHistory of Palaeontology, Fossils, Fossil Plants, Invertebrate Palaeontology, Paleobotanica, Geology and Paleontology, Early Angiosperms, Angiosperm evolution, Angiosperms, Paleobotánica, Mesozoic paleobotany, Cenozoic Palaeontology, Angiosperm Fossil Record, APPLIED PALYNOLOGY, and Palaeontology and Biogeography
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Paleontology, History of Paleontology, Paleobotany, Angiosperm Taxonomy, and 15 morePalaeontology, Palaeobotany, Invertebrate Paleontology, History of Palaeontology, Paleontologia, Paleobotanical, Palaeobotany Palmaceae, Paleobotanica, Geology and Paleontology, Angiosperms, Paleobotánica, Paleontología, Cenozoic Palaeontology, Palaeobotany and Nomenclature, and Paléobotanique
Eleven fossil-species of Rhamnus sensu lato are re-classified in currently recognized distinct genera, Atadinus, Endotropis and Frangula. New combinations are validated: Atadinus integerrimus, Endotropis idahoensis, E. moragensis,... more
Eleven fossil-species of Rhamnus sensu lato are re-classified in currently recognized distinct genera, Atadinus, Endotropis and Frangula. New combinations are validated: Atadinus integerrimus, Endotropis idahoensis, E. moragensis, Frangula columbiana, F. deweyensis, F. palaeofrangula, F. plena, F. precalifornica, F. protocrenata, F. purshoides and F. rubyvallis. A new fossil-species F. priabonica is validated instead of invalidly published F. hordwellensis. Rhamnus precalifornica is lectotypified for the first time.