@article {308, title = {Opinion 2455: Lanius leucorynchus\ and\ Psittacus mascarinus: species-group names conserved as justified emendations of punctuated original spellings,\ Lanius leucoryn.\ and\ Psittacus mascarin.\ in Linnaeus{\textquoteright}s\ Mantissa Plantarum Altera, 1771}, journal = {Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature}, volume = {77}, year = {2020}, month = {4}, type = {Opinion}, chapter = {66}, abstract = {

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved the species-group names\ leucorynchus Linnaeus, 1771\ and\ mascarinus Linnaeus, 1771\ as respective justified emendations of the specific names for a woodswallow,\ Artamus leucorynchus\ (Linnaeus, 1771), type species of the avian genus\ Artamus\ (Artamidae), and a parrot,\ Mascarinus mascarinus\ (Linnaeus, 1771), type species of the avian genus\ Mascarinus\ (Psittacidae). Both names were originally spelled by Linnaeus (1771) in his\ Mantissa Plantarum Altera\ as {\textquotedblleft}leucoryn.{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}mascarin.{\textquotedblright}, in the binomina\ Lanius leucoryn.\ and\ Psittacus mascarin.\ respectively.

}, keywords = {Nomenclature, taxonomy, Aves, Artamus leucorhynchus, Lanius leucoryn., Mascarinus mascarinus, Psittacus mascarin., Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum, Australasia, Indonesia, Mascarene Islands, abbreviation}, author = {ICZN} }