BZN Volume
62, Part 3, 30 September 2005
Abstracts
of Cases
Abstracts
of the Applications published on 30 September 2005 in Volume
62, Part 3 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
3319 (see Comments, 63:1, 63:2, 63:3 &
Opinion 2176)
Helix
papillaris Müller, 1774
(currently Papillifera
papillaris; Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed conservation
of the specific name
F.
Giusti and G. Manganelli
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università di
Siena, Via Mattioli 4, I-53100 Siena, Italy (e-mail
for Prof Giusti: giustif@unisi.it)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code,
is to conserve the specific name of Helix papillaris Müller,
1774 for a pulmonate gastropod (family CLAUSILIIDAE) from southern
Europe. The name is threatened by a senior synonym Turbo
bidens Linnaeus, 1758 for which suppression is proposed.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Mollusca; Gastropoda; CLAUSIIDAE; Helix papillaris; Turbo
bidens; southern Europe.
Case
3321 (see Comments & Opinion
2161)
Bythinella Moquin-Tandon,
1856 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, RISSOOIDAE): proposed
conservation of usage by the designation of Balimus viridis Poiret,
1801 as the type species
Dietrich
Kadolsky
66 Heathhurst Road, Sanderstead, Surrey CR2 0BA,
U.K.
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under Article 70.2 of the Code
is to conserve the usage of the generic name Bythinella Moquin-Tandon,
1856 by designating Bulimus viridis Poiret, 1801 as
the type species. Bythinella is a replacement name
for Leachia Risso, 1826 (not Leachia Lesueur,
1821) for which the type species is Leachia viridescens Risso,
1826. Although its identity is uncertain, Leachia viridescens Risso,
1826 is not congeneric with Bythinella in its accustomed
sense.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Gastropoda; Prosobranchia; RISSOOIDAE; Bythinella
viridis; Leachia; Europe.
Case
3329 (see Opinion
2163)
Mycetoporus
forticornis Fauvel, 1875 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed
precedence over Mycetoporus aequalis Thomson,
1868
Michael
Schülke
Rue Ambroise Paré 11,
D-13405 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: mschuelke.berlin@t-online.de)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code,
is to conserve the specific name Mycetoporus forticornis Fauvel,
1875 for a widespread Palaearctic species of rove beetle (STAPHYLINIDAE).
The name is threatened by the recently discovered senior synonym Mycetoporus
aequalis Thomson, 1868, which is in current use for another
species of the same genus. A change in the application of the
name from one widespread species to another would cause considerable
confusion. Therefore, precedence of the name Mycetoporus
forticornis is proposed.
Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy;
Coleoptera; STAPHYLINIAE; TACHYPORINAE; Mycetoporus; Mycetoporus
forticornis; Mycetoporus aequalis;
rove beetles; Palaearctic.
Case
3328 (see Opinion
2164)
Didelphis Linnaeus,
1758 (Mammalia, DIDELPHIDAE): proposed correction of gender,
and Cryptotis Pomel, 1848 (Mammalia, SORICIDAE):
proposed fixation of gender
Alfred
L. Gardner
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C., 20013-7012 U.S.A. (e-mail:
garnera@si.edu)
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under Article 80.9. of the Code,
is to emend the entry on the Official List of Generic Names
in Zoology to correct the gender of the nominal genus Didelphis Linnaeus,
1758 from masculine to feminine, as originally used by Linnaeus.
It is proposed that the gender of the nominal genus Cryptotis Pomel,
1848 is fixed as masculine
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; Soricomorpha; DIDELPHIDAE; SORICIDAE; Didelphis; Cryptotis;
mammals.
Case
3327 (see Opinion
2165)
Amyot,
Méthode mononymique (1845-1847): proposed
correction to Opinion 686
I.M.
Kerzhner
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
Abstract. The
purpose of this application, under Article 80.4 of the Code,
is to amend the ruling given in Opinion 686. Confusion has
been caused by the omission of part of the work by C.J.B. Amyot,
1845-1847. The work in question is Entomologie Française.
Rhynchotes. Méthode
mononymique, and was published in Annales de la Société Entomologique
de France and reprinted as a book (Amyot, 1848). It is
proposed to amend the entry on the Official List of Rejected
and Invalid Works in Zoology and to correct a pagination error
published therein.
Keywords. Nomenclature;
taxonomy; C.J.B. Amyot; Méthode
Mononymique; Hemiptera.
