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CATALOG OF ORIGINAL DESCRIPTIONS: Clavatorella salumensis Imam 1998

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Higher levels: pf_cat -> C -> Clavatorella -> Clavatorella salumensis
Other pages this level: C. nicobarensis, C. paleocenica, C. salumensis

Clavatorella salumensis

Citation: Clavatorella salumensis Imam 1998
taxonomic rank: Species

Current identification:


Original Description

n/a - the species was is based on the holotype of Protentella (Clavatorella) nicobarensis SRINIVASAN & KENNETT, 1974 and so is nomenclaturally void.

Editors' Notes
Not a valid species as Imam plagiarised all of the ‘holotype’ and ‘paratype’ images, as documented in Granier et al. 2009. 

"1998 marks IMAM's return to the Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte with a manuscript submitted in May 1997. This article deals with the description of a new species of planktonic foraminifer: Clavatorella salumensis n.sp. But his Figure 3.1, called the "holotype", is in fact the holotype of Protentella (Clavatorella) nicobarensis SRINIVASAN et KENNETT, 1974 (op. cit.: Pl. 3, fig. 11), which these authors also illustrated in 1975: Pl. 3, fig. 11. IMAM's Figures 3.2 and 3.3, his "paratypes", were also taken from the same paper (SRINIVASAN & KENNETT, 1974: Pl. 3, respectively figs. 12 and 13, a paratype and a topotype of their species). On the basis of an excerpt from IMAM's text: "The new species also shows a great resemblance to Clavatorella nicobarensis SRINIVASAN & KENNETT but differs in that the latter taxon (Clavatorella nicobarensis) has less swollen extremities of the ultimate chambers and the specimen figured by SRINIVASAN & KENNETT (1974) (pl. 1, Figs. 1, 11) is almost biumbilicate", we can state that following this piece of deceit IMAM felt confident he would never be caught." [Granier et al. 2009]

References:

Granier, B., Feist, M., Hennessey, E., Bucur, I. I. & Senowbari-Daryan, B. (2009). The IMAM case. Additional investigation of a micropaleontological fraud. Carnets de Géologie. 4: 1-14. gs

Imam, M. M. (1998). Clavatorella salumensis, a new species of planktonic foraminifera from the Early Pliocene of Wadi El Salum, north Western Desert, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte. 10: 595-603. gs

Srinivasan, M. S. & Kennett, J. P. (1974a). A planktonic foraminifer (Clavatorella) from the Pliocene. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 4(2): 77-79. gs


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Mostaf Iman(Egypt)

All that published by these authors are fake and barren of any truth. They have written this article on the basis of granier paper that have been written after imam attack granier in his published papers. They based their conclusions on flased data and fabricated this article to destroy the reputation of the author

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Jeremy Young

Thank you for your comment, I do not currently have a PDF copy of the paper (Imam 1998), if you can send me a PDF copy of the article I will be happy to re-examine the case. Jeremy Young