Recent study of the syntype material of the type species of the monotypic genus <i>Ankumia</i> van Veen, 1932 (<i>A. bosqueti</i> van Veen, 1932) confirmed a pathological retention of moults, expressed by multilayered ridge-like structures, used for the original diagnosis of the genus (Jones, 2003). For this reason, it was proposed that the genus <i>Ankumia</i> should be abandoned as a <i>nomen dubium</i> in favour of <i>Platella</i> Coryell & Fields, 1937. This interpretation was challenged by Malz & Lord (2004), who saw no reason to treat <i>Ankumia</i> as <i>nomen dubium</i> and, acknowledging the unequivocal cytherellid nature of the species, posed and addressed two taxonomical questions: (1) do pathological individuals of cytherellids justify specific and/or generic ranking?; (2) why should <i>Ankumia</i> be abandoned in favour of <i>Platella</i>?<br/><br/>In addressing their first question, Malz & Lord (2004) correctly answered in the negative. However, they claimed that ‘... demonstration of a corresponding “normal” species (including “pathological individuals”) among the associated cytherellids is wanting’. The author disagrees with this statement because he described and illustrated two morphological shell-types among the specimens assigned as syntypes of <i>Ankumia bosqueti</i> in the van Veen/Bonnema collection. They are the ‘<i>Cytherella</i> shell-type’ (Jones, 2003, pl. 1, figs 2–8) and the ‘<i>Ankumia</i> shell-type’ (Jones, 2003, pl. 1, fig. 1; pl. 2 figs 1–14), which correspond to the ‘normal’ species, and to the pathological individuals of that species, respectively. The <i>Ankumia</i> shell-type possesses concentric ribs that become progressively thinner from the adult to the juvenile stages. Of the 22 syntypes studied, 13 . . .