TY - JOUR T1 - Case 3838: Helix plicaria Lamarck, 1816 (currently Hemicycla plicaria; Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Stylommatophora, Helicidae): proposed conservation of the specific name JF - Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Y1 - 2021 A1 - Wiggering, Benedikt A1 - Glaubrecht, Matthias A1 - Neiber, Marco T KW - Nomenclature KW - taxonomy KW - Gastropoda KW - Heterobranchia KW - Caenogastropoda KW - Thiaridae KW - Bulimus KW - Helix KW - Cochlea KW - Hemicycla KW - Melania KW - Melanoides KW - Stenomelania KW - Thiara KW - Canary Islands KW - Indo-Pacific region AB -

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.5 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Helix plicaria Lamarck, 1816, a junior primary homonym of Helix plicaria Born, 1778. These names are currently in use for two different groups of land and freshwater snails, respectively, and have not been treated as congeneric since 1828. Helix plicaria Born, 1778 was first transferred to the genus Bulimus Scopoli, 1777 and subsequently to the genera Thiara Röding, 1798, Melania Lamarck, 1799, Melanoides Olivier, 1804 and Stenomelania Fischer, 1885. Helix plicaria Lamarck, 1816 has either been treated as belonging to Helix Linnaeus, 1758, Cochlea Da Costa, 1778 or has been included in Hemicycla Swainson, 1840. It is proposed that Helix plicaria Lamarck, 1816 be conserved by ruling it is not invalid by reason of being a junior homonym of Helix plicaria Born, 1778.

VL - 78 UR - https://bioone.org/journals/the-bulletin-of-zoological-nomenclature/volume-78/issue-2/bzn.v78.a024/Case-3838--Helix-plicaria-Lamarck-1816-currently-Hemicycla-plicaria/10.21805/bzn.v78.a024.short ER -