BZN Volume 64, Part 2, 30 June 2007

Abstracts of Cases

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Abstracts of the Applications published on 30 June 2007 in Volume 64, Part 2 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

Comment or advice on any of these Applications is invited for publication (subject to editing) in the Bulletin and should be sent to the Executive Secretary, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, c/o The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K. (e-mail: iczn@nhm.ac.uk).

 

Case 3386

Pseudocoenia d’Orbigny, 1850 (Coelenterata, Scleractinia): proposed conservation of usage by the designation of a lectotype for the type species

H. Löser
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geología, Estación Regional del Noroeste, Apartado Postal 1039, 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora, México (e-mail: loeser@paleotax.de)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 74.1 of the Code, is to conserve the name Pseudocoenia d’Orbigny, 1850 in its accustomed usage by designating a new lectotype for its type species Pseudocoenia bernardina d’Orbigny, 1850. The present lectotype of the type species contradicts the original description of the type species as well as the concept of the genus as indicated by its author and as currently used.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Coelenterata; Scleractinia; Pseudocoenia; Pseudocoenia bernardina; Jurassic–Cretaceous; corals.

 

Case 3385 (see Comments)

Termes serratus Froggatt, 1898 (currently Microcerotermes serratus)
and Termes serrula Desneux, 1904 (currently Microcerotermes serrula) (Insecta, Isoptera, TERMITINAE): proposed conservation of the specific names

David T. Jones
Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K. (e-mail: dtj@nhm.ac.uk)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific names Termes serratus Froggatt, 1898 (currently Microcerotermes serratus) and Termes serrula Desneux, 1904 (currently Microcerotermes serrula) (Isoptera, TERMITINAE) for two species of termite. Both names are currently invalid: T. serratus Froggatt, 1898 is a junior primary homonym of T. serratus Haviland, 1898 and T. serrula Desneux, 1904 is an unjustified replacement name for T. serratus Haviland, 1898. However, the name T. serratus Froggatt has been used since its publication to refer to an Australian termite species, while the name T. serrula Desneux, 1904 has been used since its publication to refer to a species from Southeast Asia. Roisin & Pasteels (2000) proposed that the name T. serratus Froggatt, 1898 should be replaced with T. parviceps Mjöberg, 1920, its earliest synonym, and that the name T. serrula Desneux, 1904 should be replaced with T. serratus Haviland, 1898. However, these corrections would result in considerable confusion and nomenclatural instability, and it is therefore proposed that the specific names be conserved.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Isoptera; TERMITIDAE; TERMITINAE; Microcerotermes serratus; Microcerotermes serrula; termites; Southeast Asia; Australia.

 

Case 3337 (see Comments)

Hydroporus discretus Fairmaire & Brisout de Barneville, 1859 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of the specific name

Manfred A. Jäch
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria (e-mail: manfred.jaech@nhm-wien.ac.at)

Hans Fery
Räuschstr. 73, D-13509 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: hanfry@aol.com)

A.N. Nilsson
Department of Animal Ecology, Umeå University, S-901 87 Umeå, Sweden (e-mail: anders.nilsson@emg.umu.se)

Pyotr N. Petrov
Department of Biology, Gymnasium 1543, ul. 26 Bakinskikh Komissarov, 119571 Moscow, Russia (e-mail: tinmonument@gmail.com)

Ignacio Ribera
Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, E-28006 Madrid, Spain (e-mail: i.ribera@mncn.csic.es)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Hydroporus discretus Fairmaire & Brisout de Barneville, 1859 for a widespread diving beetle species. An application to conserve the name Hydroporus discretus, and to place its senior synonym Hydroporus neuter Fairmaire & Laboulbène, 1855 on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology was published in 2001 as Case 3147 (BZN 58: 105–107). The case received a majority of Commission votes, but did not achieve the two-thirds required (BZN 61: 59–60), apparently because of inappropriate presentation of the evidence concerning prevailing usage of the name Hydroporus discretus. Data presented here unambiguously prove that maintenance of priority of the name Hydroporus neuter is not in accordance with nomenclatural stability.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Coleoptera; DYTISCIDAE; Hydroporus neuter; Hydroporus discretus; diving beetle; Europe; Palaearctic.

 

Case 3400

Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845

Peter G. Allsopp
BSES Limited, PO Box 86, Indooroopilly 4068, Australia (e-mail: pallsopp@bses.org.au)

Tristão Branco
Rua de Camões, 788, 2(Dto, 4000–142 Porto, Portugal (e-mail: tv.branco@clix.pt)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 for a well-known, widely distributed scarabaeoid beetle (family HYBOSORIDAE). The name is threatened by the senior subjective synonym Hybosorus roei Westwood, 1845, which after 1899 has been used twice by Ádám (1994, 2003). Therefore, precedence of the name Hybosorus illigeri Reiche, 1853 is proposed. Two unused senior subjective synonyms, Hybosorus pinguis Westwood, 1845 and Hybosorus carolinus LeConte, 1847, are considered nomina oblita.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; HYBOSORIDAE; Hybosorus illigeri; Hybosorus roei; Hybosorus pinguis; Hybosorus carolinus; scarabaeoids.

 

Case 3376 (see Comments)

Lithocolletis oxyacanthae Frey, 1855 (currently Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae; Insecta, Lepidoptera): proposed conservation of the specific name by giving it precedence over Lithocolletis pomonella Zeller, 1846

Paolo Triberti
c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, I-37129 Verona, Italy (e-mail: caloptilia@alice.it)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the widely used specific name Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae (Frey, 1855) for a common European leaf miner moth (family GRACILLARIIDAE) by giving it precedence over Phyllonorycter pomonella (Zeller, 1846), which has recently been shown by Triberti (2007) to be its senior synonym. A change in the application of the name would cause considerable confusion as the name P. pomonella has been commonly applied to other species.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Lepidoptera; GRACILLARIIDAE; Phyllonorycter; Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae; Phyllonorycter pomonella; leaf miner moth; Europe.

 

Case 3382

Mystus Scopoli, 1777 (Osteichthyes, Siluriformes): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Bagrus halepensis Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840 as the type species

Maurice Kottelat
Route de la Baroche 12, Case Postale 57, CH-2952 Cornol, Switzerland
(e-mail: mkottelat@dplanet.ch)

Heok Hee Ng
Fish Division, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109–1079, U.S.A. Current address: Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, 6 Science Drive 2 #03–01, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546 (e-mail: dbsnhh@nus.edu.sg)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 70.2 of the Code, is to conserve the current usage of the names Mystus Scopoli, 1777 and Platydoras Bleeker, 1862 for two genera of bagrid and doradid catfishes respectively. The names are currently in use, but their current usage is threatened by the discovery of an overlooked fixation of the type species of Mystus. The suppression of this fixation is sought and it is proposed that Bagrus halepensis Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840 should be accepted as the type species of Mystus as designated by Jordan & Evermann (1907).

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; BAGRIDAE; DORADIDAE; Mystus; Platydoras; Mystus halepensis; Platydoras costatus; catfishes.

 

Case 3383

Gobius lagocephalus Pallas, 1770 (currently Sicyopterus lagocephalus;
Osteichthyes, Teleostei, GOBIIDAE): proposed suppression of the specific name

Wm. Leo Smith and John S. Sparks
American Museum of Natural History, Department of Ichthyology,
Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024, U.S.A.
(e-mails: leosmith@amnh.org and jsparks@amnh.org)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 81.1 of the Code, is to suppress the name Gobius lagocephalus Pallas, 1770 (currently Sicyopterus lagocephalus) commonly used for a species of sicydiine goby. The name was originally applied to a species from the western Atlantic, but is currently applied to various populations of sicydiine gobies in the Indo-West Pacific. The species identity of Gobius lagocephalus is uncertain, and previous neotype designations were based on Indo-Pacific species and are rendered invalid. Further use of this name will disturb stability in the nomenclature of GOBIIDAE. The name Gobius lagocephalus has not been used for an Atlantic sicydiine goby since 1837. If a neotype is designated based on an Indo-West Pacific species, the use of the current combination Sicyopterus lagocephalus will be confusing and not consistent with the original description. It is proposed to suppress the name Gobius lagocephalus Pallas, 1770 to avoid further confusion in gobiid nomenclature.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Teleostei; GOBIIDAE; SICYDIINAE; Gobius; Sicyopterus lagocephalus; western Atlantic; Indo-West Pacific; goby.

 

Case 3380 (see Comments 64:3 & 65:1 )

Columba roseogrisea Sundevall, 1857 (currently Streptopelia roseogrisea; Aves, COLUMBIDAE): proposed conservation

Thomas M. Donegan
ProAves Foundation, 33 Blenheim Road, Caversham, Reading, U.K.
(e-mail: thomasdonegan@yahoo.co.uk)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9 of the Code, is to conserve the name Streptopelia roseogrisea (Sundevall, 1857) for the African collared dove. The name is threatened by its senior subjective synonym Streptopelia risoria (Linnaeus, 1758), which is in use for the domestic form of S. roseogrisea. It is proposed to conserve the name Streptopelia roseogrisea (Sundevall, 1857) by ruling that the name is not invalid because it is pre-dated by a name based on a domestic form.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Streptopelia roseogrisea; Streptopelia risoria; Streptopelia decaocto; ringed dove; ringed turtle-dove; barbary dove; African collared dove; collared dove.

 

Case 3384

Cornwallius tabatai Tokunaga, 1939 (currently Paleoparadoxia tabatai; Mammalia, Desmostylia): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by the designation of a neotype

Yoshikazu Hasegawa
Gunma Museum of Natural History, Gunma 370–2345, Japan
(e-mail: hasegawa@gmnh.pref.gunma.jp)

Naoki Kohno
Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo 169–0073, Japan (e-mail: kohno@kahaku.go.jp)

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 75.8 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name of Paleoparadoxia tabatai (Tokunaga, 1939) in its accustomed usage for a species of Middle Miocene desmostylian from Japan and California. The name has been widely used for this desmostylian since 1939 as defined by the neotype NSM-PV 5601 from the Akeyo Formation, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, designated by Shikama (1966). The accustomed usage is threatened by a recently discovered tooth supposedly belonging to the type series and designated as the lectotype by Inuzuka (2005). It is proposed that all type fixations prior to that by Shikama (1966) and the designation of a lectotype by Inuzuka (2005) be set aside.

Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Desmostylia; PALEOPARADOXIIDAE; Paleoparadoxia; Paleoparadoxia tabatai; Middle Miocene; Japan.