@article {301, title = {Case 3687: Phrynus mexicanus\ Poinar \& Brown, 2004 (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae): proposed conservation of the specific name as a junior primary homonym of\ Phrynus mexicanus\ Bilimek, 1867}, journal = {Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature}, volume = {72}, number = {3}, year = {2015}, month = {9}, type = {Case}, chapter = {201}, abstract = {

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.5 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name\ Phrynus mexicanus\ Poinar \& Brown, 2004\ which was proposed for a fossil whip spider (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae) preserved in Chiapas (Mexican) amber. This fossil species was initially described under the grammatically erroneous combination\ Phrynus mexicana.\ However, correcting the species epithet to\ mexicanus\ renders it a junior primary homonym of a Recent Mexican whip spider,\ Phrynus mexicanus\ Bilimek, 1867. The Recent species was subsequently transferred to the genus\ Paraphrynus\ Moreno, 1940, to give the current combination\ Paraphyrnus mexicanus\ (Bilimek, 1867), and neither species has ever been considered congeneric with the other.

}, keywords = {Nomenclature, taxonomy, Amblypygi, PHRYNIDAE, Phrynus, Paraphrynus, Phrynus mexicanus, whip spider, Mexico, Chiapas amber, Miocene}, author = {Dunlop, Jason A and Harvey, Mark S and Poinar, George O} }