original description
Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1
page(s): 5; note: replacement for junior homonym Monticellina Laubier, 1961 [details]
original description
(of Monticellina Laubier, 1961) Laubier, L. (1961 [1960 vol]). Monticellina heterochaeta n.g. n.sp., Cténodrilidé (polychètes sédentaires) des vases cotières de Banyuls-sur-Mer. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 11(4): 601-604.
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source
Freitas, Roberta; Ribeiro, Rannyele Passos; Ruta, Christine. (2022). Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016 (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from Southeastern Brazil with description of nine new species. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 17(5): e0265336, 1-27., available online at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/citation?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265336 [details] Available for editors
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Etymology Author: "named for the late Dr. Jorgen B. Kirkegaard, polychaete specialist and deep-sea biologist of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Dr. Kirkegaard described the first of the bitentaculate cirratulids having denticulate capillary setae: Cirratulus dorsobranchialis." Not stated by the author is that although Kirkegaardia is named after a man, the genus gender is feminine, as was Monticellina. Thus no species group names gender changes in spelling are required in transitioning from Monticellina to Kirkegaardia. [details]
Grammatical gender Although Kirkegaard was male Kirkegaardia is feminine, as was Monticellina. [details]
Nomenclature The genus Monticellina Laubier, 1961 is preoccupied by Monticellina Westblad, 1953 in Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela. Blake (2016:5) created Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016, nomen novum, to replace it. [details]