A note on the nomenclature of Stylodactylus gracilis Cleva, 2008 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Stylodactylidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1853 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
RÉGIS CLEVA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Nomen Nudum ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
A New Species

Article 16.4.2 of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) states that for a new species name published after 1999 to be regarded as available, it must be accompanied in the original publication “where the holotype or syntypes are extant specimens, by a statement of intent that they will be (or are) deposited in a collection and a statement indicating the name and location of that collection”. In the recent paper by Cleva (2008) treating several species of stylodactylid and bathypalaemonellid shrimps from the Philippines, a new species, Stylodactylus gracilis Cleva, 2008, was described. Although it was mentioned in the introduction that the material from this study will be deposited in three museums in the Philippines, Taiwan and France, the precise depository for the holotype of Stylodactylus gracilis Cleva, 2008, was inadvertently omitted (Cleva 2008: 32, figs. 1, 3A). This unfortunate lapsus makes the name Stylodactylus gracilis Cleva, 2008, a nomen nudum.

Comments on the holotype of Alburnus kurui Mangit & Yerli 2018 and re-description of A. carianorum Freyhof, Kaya, Bayçelebi, Geiger & Turan, 2019 (Teleostei: Leuciscidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4550 (4) ◽  
pp. 594
Author(s):  
JÖRG FREYHOF ◽  
CÜNEYT KAYA ◽  
ESRA BAYÇELEBİ ◽  
MATTHIAS GEIGER ◽  
DAVUT TURAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
A New Species

Article 16.4. of the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999) requires that the fixation of name-bearing types for a new species to be explicit: “Every new specific and subspecific name published after 1999, except a new replacement name…, must be accompanied in the original publication 16.4.1. by the explicit fixation of a holotype,…..and 16.4.2. where the holotype or syntypes are extant specimens, by a statement of intent that they will be (or are) deposited in a collection and a statement indicating the name and location of that collection.” That means that for species described after 1999, the holotype must be finally deposited in a collection and it is obligatory to indicate the name of the collection and where it is located. 

Validation of Spadella kappae Schmidt-Rhaesa & Vieler, a small benthic chaetognath from Roscoff, France (Chaetognatha)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4759 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-300
Author(s):  
ANDREAS SCHMIDT-RHAESA ◽  
VERA VIELER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Print Version ◽  
Journal Issue ◽  
New Name ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
A New Species

Schmidt-Rhaesa & Vieler (2018) described a new species of benthic chaetognath, Spadella kappae, collected by meiofaunal sampling near Roscoff, France. Although the description and figures presented by Schmidt-Rhaesa & Vieler (2018) fully characterize the new species, the journal issue in which the description appeared was published online-only, with no print version, and the article in which the new name appeared did not include a ZooBank registration number for the article (LSID), required for validation of new species names in electronic-only publications (ICZN 2012). As a result, the name Spadella kappae Schmidt-Rhaesa & Vieler, 2018, as published in Cahiers de Biologie Marine 59: 257–265, is not available according the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, hereafter, the Code (ICZN 1999, 2012). Therefore, the present note serves to validate the name Spadella kappae by fulfilling Code conditions for nomenclatural availability. The date and authorship of the specific name, accordingly, are those of this note, not Schmidt-Rhaesa & Vieler (2018). 

A name for the glass catfish (Teleostei: Siluridae) revisited

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3640 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEOK HEE NG ◽  
MAURICE KOTTELAT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Name ◽  
A New Species

We recently described a new species of catfish, Kryptopterus vitreolus (see Ng & Kottelat, 2013). Although the abstract, the introduction and the running title of that work made it clear that it was a new species, some may argue that the name is unavailable because it is not accompanied by the magic words ‘new species’. Article 16.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (hereafter the Code) requires that in order to be available a new name “must be explicitly indicated as intentionally new”. Although our study explained that the species had no name and went on to provide a description and propose a name for it, we inadvertently omitted to accompany the name with the words “new species”, leaving room for argument that the name is technically unavailable in terms of Art. 16.1 of the Code.

Notes on the original description of the maned three-toed sloth, Bradypus torquatus (Mammalia, Pilosa, Bradypodidae), by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1811

Bionomina ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus LAMBERTZ
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
International Code ◽  
Nomen Nudum ◽  
Formal Description ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
International Union ◽  
Potential Description

The maned three-toed sloth, Bradypus torquatus (Mammalia, Pilosa, Bradypodidae), is an endemic species inhabiting the Mata Atlântica in southeastern Brazil (Hayssen 2009) and according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature is classified as vulnerable (Chiarello & Moares-Barros 2011). This species was described in the classic early account of mammalian classification (Illiger 1811) by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), who mainly is well known rather for his entomological contributions (Heß 1881). However, this was not accepted by all subsequent authors, because it was claimed that the putative description of B. torquatus by Illiger represents a nomen nudum (see discussions in Gardner 2005, 2007). The first one who questioned the validity of this nomenclatural act was Thomas (1917: 352), who in turn rather attributed it to Desmarest (1816) (ex errore as “1817”). The main reason for this conception was that the original publication of this nomen by Illiger apparently was not accompanied by a diagnosis (Figure 1A), which according to Article 12.1 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (“the Code”, Anonymous 1999) is one of the obligatory criteria for the availability of scientific names. Gardner (2007: 160) on the contrary argued that the “N.” following the potential description of “Br.[adypus] torquatus” in Illiger (1811: p. 109, compare Figure 1A) probably refers to the note (“Nota”) at the end of the same page containing the actual description rather than to something like “novum”. The note, which also extends on page 110, indeed contains a brief diagnosis for this species (Figure 1B), validating it certainly as the formal description.

Validation of Shoemakerella fissipro Ortiz, Capetillo & Winfield, from the Gulf of California, northeastern Pacific Ocean (Amphipoda: Amphilochidea: Lysianassidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4728 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-150
Author(s):  
MANUEL ORTIZ ◽  
NORBERTO CAPETILLO ◽  
IGNACIO WINFIELD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Gulf Of California ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Journal Issue ◽  
Northeastern Pacific ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
A New Species

Ortiz et al. (2018) described a new species of lysianassid amphipod, Shoemakerella fissipro, from Gulf of California, northeastern Pacific Ocean. Although the description and figures presented by Ortiz et al. (2018) fully characterize the new species, the journal issue in which the description appeared was published online only, and the article in which the new name appeared did not include a ZooBank registration number (LSID), required for validation of new names in electronic-only publications (ICZN 2012). As a result, the name Shoemakerella fissipro Ortiz, Capetillo & Winfield, 2018, as published in Cahiers de Biologie Marine 59: 599–605, is not available according the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999, 2012). Therefore, the present note serves to validate name Shoemakerella fissipro by fulfilling ICZN conditions for nomenclatural availability. 

The correct spelling of the nomen of the lost shark Carcharhinus obsolerus White, Kyne & Harris, 2019 (Chondrichthyes, Carcharhinidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4657 (3) ◽  
pp. 599-600
Author(s):  
WILLIAM T. WHITE ◽  
PETER M. KYNE ◽  
MARK HARRIS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
International Code ◽  
Correct Spelling ◽  
A New Species

White et al. (2019) described a new species of whaler shark represented by only three specimens from South-east Asia, all collected prior to 1934. They proposed the nomen Carcharhinus obsolerus with the justification of: “The specific name is Latin for ‘extinct’ (obsolerus) in allusion to the fact that the species has not been recorded in many decades.” Dubois & Séret (2019) stated that the epithet obsolerus was “doubtless” an incorrect spelling which must be corrected to obsoletus. However, the Dubois & Séret (2019) publication becomes confusing in its discussion around the wording of the related Articles in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (32.2, 33.2 and 32.5) and lacks a clear conclusion.

The name Synallaxis whitneyi Pacheco and Gonzaga, 1995, is not a synonym of Synallaxis cinereus Wied, 1831 (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1166 (1) ◽  
pp. 49 ◽  
Author(s):  
RENATA STOPIGLIA ◽  
MARCOS A. RAPOSO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Name ◽  
Nomen Novum ◽  
A New Species

Synallaxis whitneyi Pacheco and Gonzaga, 1995, was described from specimens collected in Bahia, Brazil. Some years later, following analysis of the specimens used by Wied (1831) to describe Synallaxis cinereus, Whitney and Pacheco (2001) considered S. whitneyi a junior synonym of S. cinereus because three of the specimens in Wied’s series were identical to those collected in Bahia by Pacheco and Gonzaga (1995). They also designated a lectotype for Synallaxis cinereus. Our analysis of the description of Synallaxis cinereus reveals that Wied was merely providing a new name for Parulus ruficeps Spix, 1824, to avoid problems of homonymy (Wied 1831). The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is explicit in such cases, stating that if an author proposes a new species-group name as a replacement (nomen novum) for an earlier available one, then the two names are objective synonyms and have the same name-bearing type. Thus, the syntypes of S. cinereus are the specimens previously used by Spix in describing Parulus ruficeps and not those used by Wied (1831) in his description (and subsequently referred to as syntypes in the literature). The lectotype of Synallaxis cinereus proposed by Whitney and Pacheco (2001) is invalid, as it is not a former syntype. Therefore, the correct name for the Bahia Spinetail is Synallaxis whitneyi Pacheco and Gonzaga, 1995.

Validation of Discolopeus Stiller, 2019 and corrections to figures

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4585 (1) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL STILLER
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Original Publication

Stiller (2019) described a new leafhopper genus, Discolopeus, with nine new species, but the original publication did not satisfy the criteria for availability for the proposed new taxa because repositories were not indicated for primary types as required by Article 16.4.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1999). The previously published (Stiller 2019) names are validated below and additional errors and omissions in the original figures are corrected. 

Review of the millipede tribe Polydrepanini, with the description of a new species from Kerala state, southern India (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Alogolykinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5068 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-516
Author(s):  
SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH ◽  
MATHILAKATH DASAN ASWATHY ◽  
USHA BHAGIRATHAN ◽  
AMBALAPARAMBIL VASU SUDHIKUMAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Southern India ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Nomen Nudum ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
A New Species

The tribe Polydrepanini is rediagnosed through an elongate, mostly slender, sometimes twisted/helicoid gonofemorite and a more or less thin, mostly flagelliform, suberect, apical or subapical solenomere often forming a conspicuous loop/curve near the base. The tribe presently encompasses seven genera, all redefined, illustrated and keyed: Dasypharkis Attems, 1936, stat. revalid., Delarthrum Attems, 1936, Grammorhabdus Carl, 1932, stat. revalid., Pocockina Jeekel, 1965, Polydrepanum Carl, 1932 (= Gyrodrepanum Carl, 1932 and Hindomorpha Golovatch, 1984, both syn. nov.), Telodrepanum Carl, 1932, and Xiphidiogonus Carl, 1932. The genus Polydrepanum is shown to currently comprise only four described species, all also redefined, depicted and keyed: Polydrepanum tamilum Carl, 1932 (the type species), P. horridum Golovatch, 1984, P. granuliferum (Attems, 1936), comb. nov. ex Hindomorpha, and P. lamprum (Chamberlin, 1920), comb. nov. ex Gyrodrepanum. Grammorhabdus fissus (Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018) is formally transferred from Polydrepanum, comb. nov. Because Polydrepanum implicatum Carl, 1941 shows a strongly shortened gonopodal femorite, coupled with a distal and flagelliform solenomere, this species is considered as not only somewhat intermediate between the tribes Alogolykini and Polydrepanini as redefined here, but it is formally assigned to Alogolykini as the type species of Carlogonopus gen. nov. (masculine), with C. implicatus (Carl, 1941), comb. nov. ex Polydrepanum, as well as a comb. nov. ex Telodrepanum. A somewhat similar situation concerns Manikidesmus suriensis Bhakat, 2021, a still invalid genus and species from West Bengal, eastern India that likewise shows a clearly shortened gonofemorite. However, this being even more important, Manikidesmus suriensis is a “nomen nudum” not available yet for zoological nomenclature. The large and mainly Himalayan genus Delarthrum is briefly reassessed, mainly in connection with a new species, D. anomalans sp. nov., described from Kerala, southern India and placed in a species-group of its own. Some general considerations concerning the diversity and distribution of the subfamily Alogolykinae are presented.  

Validation of Owenia vieitezi Díaz-Díaz, Parapar & Moreira, a polychaete from the coast of Venezuela (Annelida: Oweniidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4729 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-146
Author(s):  
OSCAR FELIPE DÍAZ-DÍAZ ◽  
JULIO PARAPAR ◽  
JUAN MOREIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
International Code ◽  
Journal Issue ◽  
The North ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
North Western ◽  
A New Species

Díaz-Díaz et al. (2018) described a new species of oweniid polychaete, Owenia vieitezi, from the north-western coast of the Gulf of Venezuela, Caribbean Sea. Although the description and figures presented by Díaz-Díaz et al. (2018) fully characterize the new species, the journal issue in which the description appeared was published online only and the article in which the new name appeared did not include a ZooBank registration number (LSID), required for validation of new species names in electronic-only publications (ICZN 2012). As a result, the name Owenia vieitezi Díaz-Díaz, Parapar & Moreira, 2018, as published in Cahiers de Biologie Marine 59: 589–597, is not available according the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999, 2012). Therefore, the present note serves to validate the name Owenia vieitezi by fulfilling the ICZN conditions for nomenclatural availability. 

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