Abstracts
of the Applications published on 30 March 2001 in
Volume 58, Part 1 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
3158
Helix
lucorum Linnaeus, 1758 and Helix
punctata Müller, 1774 (currently Otala
punctata; Mollusca, Gastropoda):
proposed conservation of usage of the specific
names by the replacement of the syntypes of H.
lucorum with a neotype
Christian
Van Osselaer, Frédéric Chérot & Bernard
Tursch
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Laboratoire
de Bio-Ecologie, av. F. Roosevelt
50, C.P. 160/14, B-1050
Brussels, Belgium
Thierry
Backeljau
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles
de Belgique, rue Vautier, 29, B-1000
Brussels, Belgium
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is to conserve the accustomed
understanding and usage of the names for two European
pulmonate gastropods, Helix lucorum Linnaeus,
1758 and Otala punctata (Müller, 1774)
(family HELICIDAE). The two existing syntypes of H.
lucorum are specimens of O. punctata and
it is proposed that these be set aside and a neotype
designated in accord with accepted usage. The species Helix
lucorum as currently understood is found from Italy
eastwards through to the former USSR and has been introduced
in France; O. punctata is present in the south
of France, Spain and the north of Morocco. Both the
names H. lucorum and O. punctata refer
to two of the most commercialised terrestrial snails
of the food industry.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Gastropoda; Pulmonata; HELICIDAE; Helix
lucorum; Otala punctata; edible snails.
Case
3175
Ampullaria
canaliculata Lamarck, 1822 (currently Pomacea
canaliculata; Mollusca, Gastropoda):
proposed conservation of the specific name
Robert
H. Cowie
Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice
Street, Honolulu, Hawaii
96817-2704, U.S.A.
Alan
R. Kabat
c/o Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.
C. 20560-0118, U. S. A.
Neal
L. Evenhuis
(address as for Dr R.H. Cowie)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is to conserve the well
known and used specific name of Ampullaria canaliculata Lamarck,
1822 (currently known as Pomacea canaliculata,
family AMPULLARIIDAE) for a species of freshwater gastropod.
The name has been used for the taxon for nearly 180
years but is a junior primary homonym of Ampullaria
canaliculata Lamarck, 1804 (currently known as Natica or Amauropsina
canaliculata, family NATICIDAE or AMPULLOSPIRIDAE,),
the name for an Eocene marine species from Europe.
The species have not been considered congeneric since
1832. Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822) is
a major pest species of rice and taro, originally from
South America but spreading in North America and introduced
in south-east Asia and islands in the Pacific.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Natica canaliculata; Amauropsina
canaliculata; Pomacea canaliculata; Gastropoda;
NATICIDAE; AMPULLOSPIRIDAE; AMPULLARIIDAE; Eocene;
Recent; apple snails; pest species.
Case
3132
Eudorylas Aczél, 1940
(Insecta, Diptera): proposed conservation
of usage by the designation of Pipunculus fuscipes Zetterstedt, 1844
as the type species
Marc
De Meyer
Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika, Leuvensesteenweg
13, 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
Jeff
Skevington
Department of Zoology and Entomology, University
of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland
4072, Australia. Present
address: Diptera Unit, Systematic
Entomology Section, ECORC, Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
KIA 0C6, Canada
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is to conserve the use
of the name Eudorylas Aczél, 1940 for
a large and cosmopolitan genus of pipunculid flies,
parasites of Homoptera, by designating Pipunculus
fuscipes Zetterstedt, 1844 as the type species.
The originally designated type species is Cephalops
opacus Fallén, 1816, but this was based
on an error. C. opacus does not correspond
to the original and subsequent usage of Eudorylas but
is included in Microcephalops De Meyer, 1989. Neodorylas Kuznetzov,
1995 was proposed as a substitute name for Eudorylas auct.,
but it has not been adopted and if it were there would
be considerable confusion, since the name Eudorylas would
be transferred to the species placed in Microcephalops. The
present proposals conserve the usage of both Eudorylas and Microcephalops; Neodorylas will
become a junior objective synonym of Eudorylas.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Diptera; PIPUNCULIDAE; Eudorylas; Eudorylas
fuscipes; Microcephalops; Microcephalops
opacus; Neodorylas.
Case 3149 (see Comments & Opinion
2008)
Proposed
conservation of 31 species-group names originally
published as junior primary homonyms in Buprestis Linnaeus, 1758
(Insecta, Coleoptera)
C.L.
Bellamy
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A.
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is the conservation of
31 specific names which have been in use for buprestid
beetles for very many years but which, when originally
published in combination with Buprestis, were
junior primary homonyms. The species are now placed
in many different genera. In none of these cases have
the species denoted by the homonyms been considered
congeneric since the 19th-century, if at all, and this
case is submitted in accord with Article 23.9.5 of
the Code.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Coleoptera; BUPRESTIDAE; Buprestis;
buprestids; jewel beetles.
Case 3157
Halictoides
dentiventris Nylander, 1848 (currently Dufourea
dentiventris; Insecta, Hymenoptera):
proposed conservation of the specific name
P.A.W.
Ebmer
Kirchenstrasse 9, A-4048
Puchenau, Austria
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is to conserve the usage
of the specific name of Dufourea dentiventris (Nylander,
1848), the type species of Halictoides Nylander,
1848 (family HALICTIDAE), a well known widespread Palaearctic
bee genus. The name is a junior synonym of Dufourea
dejeanii Lepeletier, 1841 which prior to the recent
discovery of its holotype was considered an unidentifiable
name. It is proposed that the specific name of D.
dejeanii Lepeletier, 1841 be suppressed.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Hymenoptera; APOIDEA; HALICTIDAE; Dufourea; Halictoides; Dufourea
dejeanii; Dufourea dentiventris; Palaearctic.
Case
3165 (see Comments & Opinion
2045)
Parasuchus
hislopi Lydekker, 1885 (Reptilia, Archosauria):
proposed replacement of the lectotype by a neotype
Sankar
Chatterjee
Museum of Texas Tech University, Box
41053, Lubbock, TX 79409-3191, U.S.A.
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is to designate a neotype
for Parasuchus hislopi Lydekker, 1885, a well-known
crocodile-like archosaurian reptile (phytosaur or parasuchid)
from the Late Triassic Maleri Formation of India. The
lectotype is fragmentary (a premaxillary rostrum),
and because of this some authors have recently suggested
that the name of the nominal genus Parasuchus Lydekker,
1885 (of which P. hislopi is the type species)
should be replaced by Paleorhinus Williston,
1904. To maintain stability of usage and in accord
with Article 75.5 of the Code it is proposed that the
lectotype be set aside and a complete articulated skeleton
be designated as the neotype.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Archosauria; PARASUCHIDAE; PHYTOSAURIDAE; Parasuchus; Parasuchus
hislopi; Paleorhinus; archosaurs; parasuchids;
phytosaurs; Triassic.
Case 3143 (see
Comments BZN 58:3, 58:4, 59:1, 59:3 & Opinion
2072)
Euphryne
obesus Baird, 1858 (Reptilia, Squamata):
proposed precedence of the specific name over that
of Sauromalus ater Duméril, 1856
Richard
R. Montanucci
Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson
University, Clemson, South
Carolina 29634-1903, U.S.A.
Hobart
M. Smith, Kraig Adler, David L. Auth, Ralph W. Axtell,
Ted J. Case, David Chiszar, Joseph T. Collins, Roger
Conant, Robert Murphy, Kenneth Petren, Robert C. Stebbins
Abstract. The
purpose of this application is to conserve the long
used and well known specific name of Sauromalus
obesus (Baird, 1858) for the chuckwalla (family
IGUANIDAE) from the southwest of North America by giving
it precedence over the little used name S. ater Duméril,
1856.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Reptilia; Squamata; IGUANIDAE; Sauromalus
ater; Sauromalus obesus; chuckwallas; southwestern
North America.
Case
3022
Catalogue
des mammifères du Muséum National
d'Histoire Naturelle by Étienne Geoffroy
Saint-Hilaire (1803): proposed placement on the
Official List of Works Approved as Available for
Zoological Nomenclature
Peter
Grubb 35 Downhills Park Road, London NI7
6PE, U.K.
Abstract. At
least 24 generic and specific names for mammals established
by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his 1803 Catalogue
des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire
Naturelle (Paris) have been treated as available
and valid and have been used, some very widely. Nevertheless,
the status of the Catalogue as an available
work has been challenged periodically between 1922
and 1993. Even though in 1963 the Catalogue had
been shown to satisfy the criteria for publication,
it was considered to be unavailable in Mammal species
of the world edited by Wilson & Reeder (1993).
The present application proposes that the nomenclatural
instability be resolved by placing the work on the
Official List of Works Approved as Available for Zoological
Nomenclature. The generic name Scalopus and
five specific names of Geoffroy (1803) would require
individual conservation if the Catalogue were
to be treated as unavailable. In March 1971 (Opinion
945) the specific name of Sciurus (currently Xerus
or Euxerus) erythropus for the Subsaharan ground
squirrel was placed on the Official List with authorship
and date attributed to Geoffroy (1803).
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Mammalia; Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire; Catalogue
des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire
Naturelle (1803); Scalopus; Pteropus
rufus; Saguinus niger; Canis niloticus; Proechimys
guyannensis; Herpailurus yagouaroundi;
moles; grass rats; fruit bats; tamarin monkeys; red
foxes; jaguarundis; spiny rats.
