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Case 3601: Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published

Status of Case:Resolved (Opinion Issued)
Date Published:12/2013
Authors: Hoser, R.
Volume and Issue:70/4
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Keywords: Nomenclature, taxonomy, Reptilia, ELAPIDAE, spitting cobras, Spracklandus, Afronaja
Taxonomic Group(s): Reptilia, Serpentes
Abstract:

The purpose of this application, under Articles 78.2.3 and 80.2.1 of the Code, is to confirm that the generic name Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 [23 March] for the African spitting cobras is available in the sense of the Code, and also that the work in which this genus was proposed met the Code’s criteria of publication under Article 8.1. The Commission is asked to rule on these seemingly routine matters because widely promulgated recommendations by some herpetologists to use a junior objective synonym, Afronaja Wallach, Wüster & Broadley, 2009 [21 September], instead has resulted in instability in nomenclature.

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https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a7

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Comments

Comment 3601-5: Comments on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published
Status of Case:
Date Published:09/2014
Authors: Cotton, T.
Volume and Issue:71/3
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https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v71i3.a17

Also includes statements of support by Michael Smyth and Paul Woolf.

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Comment 3601-6: Comment on the proposed confirmation of the availability of Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Squamata, ELAPIDAE)
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Date Published:12/2014
Authors: Zug, G. R.
Volume and Issue:71/4
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https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v71i4.a16

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Comment 3601-8: Comments on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published
Status of Case:
Date Published:03/2015
Authors: Rhodin, A. G. J., Kaiser, H., van Dijk, P. P., Wüster, W., O’Shea, M., Archer, M., Auliya, M., Boitani, L., Bour, R., Clausnitzer, V., Contreras-MacBeath, T., Crother, B. I., Daza, J. M., Driscoll, C. A., Flores-Villela, O., Frazier, J., Fritz, U., Gardner, A. L., Gascon, C., Georges, A., Glaw, F., Grazziotin, F. G., Groves, C. P., Haszprunar, G., Havaš, P., Hero, J., Hoffmann, M., Hoogmoed, M. S., Horne, B. D., Iverson, J. B., Jäch, M., Jenkins, C. L., Jenkins, R. K. B., Kiester, A. R., Keogh, J. S., Lacher, T. E. J., Lovich, J. E., Luiselli, L., Mahler, D. L., Mallon, D., Mast, R., McDiarmid, R. W., Measey, J., Mittermeier, R. A., Molur, S., Mosbrugger, V., Murphy, R. W., Naish, D., Niekisch, M., Ota, H., Parham, J. F., Parr, M. J., Pilcher, N. J., Pine, R. H., Rylands, A. B., Sanderson, J. G., Savage, J. M., Schleip, W., Scrocchi, G. J., Shaffer, H. B., Smith, E. N., Sprackland, R., Stuart, S. N., Vetter, H., Vitt, L. J., Waller, T., Webb, G., Wilson, E. O., Zaher, H., Thomson, S.
Volume and Issue:72/1
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https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v72i1.a12

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Opinions

Opinion 2468: Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Elapidae) and Australasian Journal of Herpetology issues 1–24: confirmation of availability declined; Appendix A (Code of Ethics): not adopted as a formal criterion for ruling on Cases
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Date Published:04/2021
Authors: ICZN
Volume and Issue:78/
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Abstract:

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature finds no basis under the provisions of the Code for regarding the name Spracklandus as unavailable, nor for regarding any of issues 1–24 of Australasian Journal of Herpetology as being unpublished in the sense of the Code, but the Commission has declined to use its powers to confirm what is obvious. The Commission is not empowered to take Appendix A of the Code (Code of Ethics) into account in its rulings on this or any other Case.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v78.a012

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