Opinions
with the following titles were
published on 20 December 2007
in Volume 64, Part 4 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Copies
of these Opinions can be obtained
free of charge from the Executive
Secretary, The International Commission
on Zoological Nomenclature, c/o The
Natural History Museum, Cromwell
Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K. (e-mail: iczn@nhm.ac.uk)
OPINION
2185 (Case
3340)
Heliacus d’Orbigny, 1842 (Mollusca,
Gastropoda): conserved
Abstract. The Commission has ruled that the name
of the nominal genus Heliacus d’Orbigny,
1842 is conserved by the suppression
of the name of its subjective synonym
Torinia Gray, 1842. The relative precedence
of the two names is unresolved for
a group of gastropod molluscs.
Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Gastropoda;
ARCHITECTONICIDAE; Heliacus; Torinia;
Heliacus cylindricus; sundial shell;
Western Atlantic.
OPINION
2186 (Case
3349)
Gnorimus Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Serville,
1828, and Osmoderma Le Peletier de
Saint-Fargeau & Serville,
1828 (Insecta, Coleoptera, SCARABAEIDAE):
conserved
Abstract. The Commission has ruled that the names
of two well-established genera of scarab
beetles Gnorimus Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau & Serville,
1828, and Osmoderma Le Peletier de
Saint-Fargeau & Serville,
1828, are conserved by suppression
of their two respective senior synonyms
Aleurostictus Kirby, 1827, and Gymnodus Kirby, 1827.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Coleoptera; SCARABAEIDAE;
Gnorimus; Osmoderma; Aleurostictus;
Gymnodus; Acari; ASCIDAE; scarab beetles;
mites; Palaearctic; North America.
OPINION
2187 (Case
3330)
Nectarinia
senegalensis cruentata Rüppell,
1845 (Aves, Passeriformes):
subspecific name not conserved
Abstract. The
Commission has ruled that the name
Nectarinia senegalensis
cruentata Rüppell,
1845 (family NECTARINIIDAE) for a subspecies
of African sunbird is not conserved.
The name is a junior objective synonym
of Cinnyris proteus Rüppell,
1840.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; NECTARINIIDAE; Nectarinia;
Nectarinia senegalensis
cruentata;
Cinnyris proteus; sunbirds; Ethiopia;
Southeast Sudan; Eritrea.
