BZN Volume
60, Part 2, 30 June 2003
Comments
Comments
with the following titles were published on 30 June 2003
in Volume 60, Part 2 of the Bulletin of Zoological
Nomenclature
Copies
of these Comments 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).
Comments
on the neotypification of Protists, especially Ciliates (Protozoa,
Ciliophora)
(General
Article; see BZN
59: 165-169; 60: 48-49)
(1) Jean Dragesco
394 Boulevard du Grand Devois, F-34980 Saint-Clement-de-Rivière,
France
I fully support Wilhelm
Foissner’s proposal that the neotypes of protists, especially
Ciliates, should be freed from the type locality regulation
of Article 75.3.6 of the Code, provided that neotypification
is based on a thorough redescription of the organisms and usable
neotype material has been deposited in an acknowledged repository.
(2) Khaled A.S. AL-Rasheid
Zoology Department, College of Science,
King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh
11451, Saudi Arabia
I support Wilhelm Foissner’s
proposal that the neotypes of protists, especially Ciliates,
should be freed from the type locality regulation of Article
75.3.6 of the Code, as it is not applicable to protists.
Comments
on the proposed conservation of Cyphosoma Mannerheim,
1837 and proposed precedence of Halecia Laporte & Gory,
1837 over Pristiptera Dejean, 1833 (Insecta, Coleoptera)
(Case 3205;
see BZN 59:
249-252)
(1) Vladimir Sakalian
Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences, 1 Tzar Osvoboditel Blvd, 1000
Sofia, Bulgaria
I support this application,
as it will ensure nomenclatural stability.
(2) Roman B. Holynski
PL – 05822 Milanówek, ul.
Graniczna 35, skr. poczt. 65, Poland
I do not support this
application. I do not approve of junior names being given precedence
over senior names. In the cases of Cyphonota and Pristiptera there
is no justification for setting aside the Principle of Priority
and for conserving errors by giving precedence to junior synonyms.
Consequently, I ask the Commission to reject the application.
Comment
on the proposed precedence of Aegorhinus Erichson,
1834 (Insecta, Coleoptera) over Psuchocephalus Latreille,
1828
(Case 3214;
see BZN 59:
253-255)
M.A. Alonso-Zarazaga
Depto. de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva,
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, José Gutiérrez
Abascal 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
C.H.C. Lyal
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
We fully support the
application presented by our colleagues M. Elgueta and G. Kuschel
to give precedence to Aegorhinus Erichson, 1834 over Psuchocephalus Latreille,
1828, being subjective synonyms. When we published our Catalogue
(Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999), we knew the existence of
Article 23.9.1 of the then forthcoming 4th Edition of the Code,
but at that time we could not find the number of records required
to meet the requirements of Article 23.9.1.2, so we opted for
Priority.
We have already stated our agreement with Kuschel & Elgueta (Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal,
2002, p. 22) and endorse the exact terms of this application.
Additional
reference
Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A. &
Lyal, C.H.C. 2002. Addenda and corrigenda to A
World Catalogue of Families and Genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta:
Coleoptera). Zootaxa, 63: 1-37.
