Abstract
The family Bathyporeiidae was introduced without description, and later on, when its first proper description appeared, was not considered as new. Therefore, it cannot be currently considered as a valid family. These procedural irregularities are corrected herein, and the the family is described de novo, with Bathyporeia as its type genus. Bousfield & Shih (1994) created a number of amphipod families, which are nomenclaturally invalid, as they were not accompanied by descriptions, as specifically required by Art. 13 of ICZN (1999). However, as in many cases the creation of these families was justified from a systematic point of view, some of them have been used in subsequent systematic literature with Bousfield & Shih (1994) as the authority. The present author became aware of this non-Code compliant situation, when he was carrying out a comparison of the family Liljeborgiidae with its possible relatives. Two of these 'ghost families', the Cheirocratidae and Hornelliidae were discussed in d'Udekemd'Acoz (2010), in which they were validated. The present paper focuses on the similar case of the family Bathyporeiidae, which is validated herein.
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