Corrigendum to “Assessing phylogenetic dependence of morphological traits using co-inertia prior to investigate character evolution in Loricariinae catfishes” Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 46 (2008) 986–1002

Abstract

In Covain et al. (2008), we proposed the new family-group name Sturisomina for the clade including the genera Sturisoma, Farlowella,Sturisomatichthys and Lamontichthys. This new name was not needed because the family-group name Farlowellini Fowler, 1958 is alreadyavailable for any lineage including its type genus Farlowella (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), 1999).The fact that Farlowellini was originally proposed as the name of a tribe within Loricariinae does not preclude its usage as the name of asubtribe (here Farlowellina). Article 36.1 of ICZN states the Principle of Coordination that applies to family-group names: a name estab-lished for a taxon at any rank in the family group is deemed to have been simultaneously established for nominal taxa at all other ranksin the family group; at all ranks the type genus remains the same (here Farlowella), and the name is formed from the stem of the name ofthe type genus (here Farlowell-) with the appropriate change of suffix (-ini for tribes, -ina for subtribes). The name has the same authorshipand date at every rank.According to the Principle of Priority, the valid name of a taxon is the oldest available name applied to it. Priority between names of thefamily group is not affected by the change of rank within the family, nor by any mandatory change in suffix of a family-group name con-sequent upon change in rank (Article 23.3.1). Accordingly, the correct name of a subtribe including Farlowella has to be FarlowellinaFowler,1958.In addition, the name Sturisomina proposed by the authors is not available because it does not satisfy the conditions of Article 13.1.1 ofthe ICZN, which requires for a new family-group name to become available to be accompanied by a description or definition that states inwords characters that are purported to differentiate the taxon, and the fixation of a type genus (Article 64).AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to Maurice Kottelat for pointing out the nomenclatural problem.Reference