Talk:Dileptus anser

The date 1786 is often given for Müller's first description of Vibrio anser (=Dileptus anser), and several internet sites use that date (which is the date of the posthumous publication of his Animalcula Infusoria). However, Müller's first published description of Vibrio anser was in his Vermium Terrestrium et Fluviatilium, seu Animalium Infusoriorum, Helminthecorum, et Testaceorum non Marinorum, succincta Historia, published in Copenhagen & Leipzig in 1773.

Deuterostome (talk) 00:34, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected to Pseudomonilicaryon

Because of an old taxonomic error (dating back to Dujardin, 1841), the Wikipedia article entitled Dileptus anser described a ciliate properly called Dileptus margaritifer (an organism with a relatively short neck and scattered macronucleus). The confusion between the species is very widespread (most of the scientific literature before 1984 refers to specimens of D. margaritifer under the name D. anser). Since the corrected taxonomy is uncontroversial and accepted by leading authorities on the group, the content of the article on Dileptus anser has been moved to Dileptus margaritifer (with some revisions).

The species properly referred to as Dileptus anser Mueller, 1773 (a long-necked dileptid with a moniliform macronucleus) has recently been moved to a new genus, Pseudomonilicaryon. Consequently, for the article on that species, I have created a new page under the name Pseudomonilicaryon anser. Dileptus anser has been redirected to this page.Deuterostome (talk) 16:38, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]