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Resolving the Ophioderma longicauda (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) 
cryptic species complex: five sisters, three of them new – Corrigendum

Sabine STÖHR 1,*, Alexandra Anh-Thu WEBER 2, Emilie BOISSIN 3 & Anne CHENUIL 4
1 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Zoology, 

Frescativägen 40, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden.
2 Marine invertebrates, Museum Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne VIC 3001, Australia.

2 IFREMER, Centre de Bretagne, REM / EEP, Laboratoire Environnement Profond, 
29280 Plouzané, France.

3 PSL Research University: EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR3278 CRIOBE, 
Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France.

4 Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie marine et continentale 
(IMBE) - CNRS - IRD - UAPV, Station Marine d’Endoume, 
Chemin de la Batterie des Lions, F-13007 Marseille, France.

* Corresponding author: sabine.stohr@nrm.se
2 Email: aweber@museum.vic.gov.au
3 Email: emilie.boissin@univ-perp.fr

4 Email: anne.chenuil@imbe.fr

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Stöhr S., Weber A.A.-T., Boissin E. & Chenuil A. 2020. Resolving the Ophioderma longicauda (Echinodermata: 
Ophiuroidea) cryptic species complex: five sisters, three of them new – Corrigendum. European Journal of 
Taxonomy 607: 1–2. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.607

The last paragraph of the introduction (pp 4–5, Stöhr et al. 2020) should be amended as follows:
“....The nomenclatural problem was resolved by decision of the International Commission of Zoological 
Nomenclature (Melville 1980), which also erroneously decided that Ophioderma is of feminine gender. 
This was corrected a year later (International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature 1981) and 
Ophioderma is of neuter gender. Unfortunately, this correction has gone largely unnoticed until now, 
leading to confusion, with some authors using the feminine form and others the neuter form of the 
species epithets in this genus. From now on, the neuter form alone should be used. To stabilize a species 
concept, .....”

All occurrences of Ophioderma longicauda should be changed to Ophioderma longicaudum. All 
occurrences of Ophioderma africana sp. nov. should be changed to Ophioderma africanum sp. nov., 
and all occurrences of Ophioderma hybrida should be changed to Ophioderma hybridum sp. nov.

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European Journal of Taxonomy 607: 1–2 (2020)

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The title should be changed to “Resolving the Ophioderma longicaudum (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) 
cryptic species complex: five sisters, three of them new”.

The following reference should be added to the list of references:
International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. 1981. Corrigenda. Bulletin of Zoological 
Nomenclature 38 (4): 317.

Reference
Stöhr S., Weber A.A.-T., Boissin E. & Chenuil A. 2020. Resolving the Ophioderma longicauda 
(Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) cryptic species complex: five sisters, three of them new. European 
Journal of Taxonomy 600: 1–37. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.600

Published on: 21 February 2020

Printed versions of all papers are also deposited in the libraries of the institutes that are members of 
the EJT consortium: Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, France; Meise Botanic Garden, 
Belgium; Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural 
Sciences, Brussels, Belgium; Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark; Naturalis 
Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands; Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, 
Spain; Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid CSIC, Spain; Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, 
Bonn, Germany; National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.

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