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Opinion 2502: Opinion 2502 (Case 3555) – CHILODONTIDAE Bronn, 1859 (Ciliophora), CHILODONTINAE Eigenmann, 1910 (Pisces, Characiformes) and CHILODONTINAE Wenz, 1938 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): homonymy between family-group names resolved

“Opinion 2502: Opinion 2502 (Case 3555) – CHILODONTIDAE Bronn, 1859 (Ciliophora), CHILODONTINAE Eigenmann, 1910 (Pisces, Characiformes) and CHILODONTINAE Wenz, 1938 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): homonymy between family-group names resolved”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 81, pp. 133-136, 2024.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has hereby removed the homonymy between the family-group names CHILODONTIDAE Bronn, 1859, CHILODONTINAE, an emendation of CHILODINAE Eigenmann, 1910, and CHILODONTINAE Wenz, 1938, by: 1) using its plenary power to suppress the genus-group name  Chilodon  Ehrenberg, 1834 (Ciliophora) for the purposes....

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Case 3555: Chilodontidae Macalister, 1876 (Ciliophora), Chilodontinae Eigenmann, 1910 (Pisces, Characiformes), and Chilodontinae Wenz, 1938 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed resolution of homonymy
between family-group names

D.G. Herbert, P. Bouchet, “Case 3555: Chilodontidae Macalister, 1876 (Ciliophora), Chilodontinae Eigenmann, 1910 (Pisces, Characiformes), and Chilodontinae Wenz, 1938 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): proposed resolution of homonymy
between family-group names”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. , 2011.

The purpose of this application, under Articles 29 and 55 of the Code, is to remove the homonymy between the family-group names Chilodontidae Macalister, 1876 (type genus Chilodon Ehrenberg, 1834 [Ciliophora]), Chilodontinae, an emendation of Chilodinae Eigenmann, 1910 (type genus Chilodus Müller & Troschel, 1844 [Pisces]), and....

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