Galathea nasimae, new name for Galathea keijii Tirmizi & Javed, 1993, preoccupied by Galathea keijii Karasawa, 1993 (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4590 (2) ◽  
pp. 296
Author(s):  
HIROAKI KARASAWA
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Squat Lobster ◽  
New Name ◽  
Reference Collection ◽  
Living Species

The name, Galathea keijii, was given to a Miocene fossil species of squat lobster from Japan by Karasawa (1993: 39, pl. 6, figs. 1, 2, 3, 10). In the same year, the name, Galathea keijii, was established for a living species from the Andaman Sea and Arabian Sea (Tirmizi & Javed 1993: 50, fig. 22). Therefore, both names are homonymous. The description of Karasawa was published in the Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, no. 20, which, on the inside back cover states the date of publication as December 25, 1993. The description of Tirmizi & Javed was published in “Indian Ocean galatheids (Crustacea: Anomura)” by the Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre, University of Karachi. This work was published in 1993 but the day and month of publication were not cited in the publication. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the date of publication for “Indian Ocean galatheids (Crustacea: Anomura)” is deemed to be the last day of 1993, by application of Article 21.3.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999: 20). As such, application of Article 52 on the principle of homonymy of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999: 56) shows that Galathea keijii Karasawa, 1993, takes precedence over Galathea keijii Tirmizi & Javed, 1993. In accordance with Article 60 on the replacement of junior homonyms (ICZN 1999: 62, 63) a new replacement name, Galathea nasimae, is here proposed for Galathea keijii Tirmizi & Javed, 1993. It is dedicated to the late Dr. Nasima M. Tirmizi (Marine Reference Collection and Resource Centre, University of Karachi).

Mursia spiridonovi, new name for Mursia minuta Spiridonov & Apel, 2007 preoccupied by Mursia minuta Karasawa, 1993 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Calappidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4375 (4) ◽  
pp. 587 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIROAKI KARASAWA
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
New Name ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Living Species ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The name Mursia minuta Spiridonov & Apel, 2007, was given to a living species from the Indian Ocean (Spiridonov & Apel 2007: 2870, figs. 2G, H, 4E, F, 8C, 10A–D, 11A, B, 12A, B). This name is preoccupied by the senior primary homonym Mursia minuta Karasawa, 1993, for a Pliocene fossil species from Japan (Karasawa 1993: 45, pl. 8, figs. 8, 10, 13, 14). In accordance with Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999: 62, 63) a new replacement name, Mursia spiridonovi is here proposed for Mursia minuta Spiridonov & Apel, 2007. It is named for V. A. Spiridonov (Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), in honor of his pioneering work on the extant decapods. 

Bicarinellata a new name for Bicarinella Rode, Lieberman, and Rowell, 2003 (Arthopoda, Bradoriida) preoccupied by Bicarinella Waterhouse, 1966 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) and Bicarinella Akopyan, 1976 (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (6) ◽  
pp. 1220-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alycia L. Stigall
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
East Antarctica ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Early Cambrian ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Name ◽  
Valid Genus ◽  
The One

The genus Bicarinella Rode et al., 2003 was erected for a new hipponicharionid bradoriid species described from the early Cambrian of East Antarctica, characterized by a subtriangular carapace with prominent anterior and posterior lobes developed as two distinctive, sharp ridges (bi = two, carina = ridges). Unfortunately, the name Bicarinella is preoccupied by two different gastropod genera: Bicarinella Waterhouse 1966, a Permian gastropod from New Zealand and Australia, and Bicarinella Akopyan 1976, a gastropod from Late Cretaceous strata of Armenia, Serbia, Romania, Tajikistan, and Egypt (Mennessier, 1994; Banjac, 1998; Pana, 1998). Mennessier (1994) transferred Bicarinella Akopyan, 1976 from its original status as an independent taxon to a subgenus of Pseudomesalia Douvillé 1916, but subsequent workers have continued to consider Bicarinella a valid genus (Pena, 1998; Banjac, 1998). Due to the preoccupation, the bradoriid genus is herein renamed in accordance with the requirement of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999, article 60). It is also noted here that the one of the two distinct gastropod genera should be renamed. The name Bicarinellata (bi = two, carina = ridges) is proposed as a replacement name for Bicarinella Rode et al., 2003. This name retains the original prefixes to preserve taxonomic stability as much as possible. The type species of Bicarinellata is B. evansi by original designation (Rode et al., 2003).

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). 

scholarly journals ΔR Correction Values for the Northern Indian Ocean

Radiocarbon ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 43 (2A) ◽  
pp. 483-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koushik Dutta ◽  
Ravi Bhushan ◽  
B L K Somayajulu
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Northern Arabian Sea ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
Thermocline Ventilation ◽  
Ventilation Rates ◽  
Made In

Apparent marine radiocarbon ages are reported for the northern Indian Ocean region for the pre-nuclear period, based on measurements made in seven mollusk shells collected between 1930 and 1954. The conventional 14C ages of these shells range from 693 ± 44 to 434 ± 51 BP in the Arabian Sea and 511 ± 34 to 408 ± 51 BP in the Bay of Bengal. These ages correspond to mean ΔR correction values of 163 ± 30 yr for the northern Arabian Sea, 11 ± 35 yr for the eastern Bay of Bengal (Andaman Sea) and 32 ± 20 yr for the southern Bay of Bengal. Contrasting reservoir ages for these two basins are most likely due to differences in their thermocline ventilation rates.

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.

Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckerana, a replacement name for Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 (Gastropoda: Turridae: Crassispirinae) not Crassispira tuckeri Le Renard, 1994

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2767 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
A. BONFITTO ◽  
M. MORASSI
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Name

Bonfitto & Morassi (2004) described Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri based on Recent material from Muqdisho, Somalia. Crassispira tuckeri, however, was first proposed by Le Renard (1994) as a new name for Pleurotoma dubia Deshayes, 1835, a Middle Eocene species from France, a homonym of Pleurotoma dubia Cristofori & Jan, 1832. Additionally, no potentially valid synonyms are available for Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 (ICZN Art. 60.2). Thus, in accordance with Article 60.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), a replacement name for Crassispira (Crassispirella) tuckeri Bonfitto & Morassi, 2004 is required.

Ubinates, a new name for the genus Aethotaxis Baesemann, 1973 (Vertebrata, Conodonta) preoccupied by Aethotaxis Dewitt, 1962 (Vertebrata, Osteichtyes)

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 544-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Baesemann ◽  
Mark Purnell
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Name ◽  
Nomen Novum

Baesemann (1973) erected the genus Aethotaxis to accommodate morphologically distinctive conodont elements from the Pennsylvanian (Missourian) of northeastern Kansas. By chance we have recently discovered that the name is preoccupied by a notothenioid perciform fish Aethotaxis DeWitt, 1962. Thus, in accordance with Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999), we propose the name Ubinates nomen novum as a replacement for Aethotaxis Baesemann, 1973, not Aethotaxis DeWitt, 1962. Ubinates derives from the Latin ubi, meaning where (interrogative), and nates, meaning rump; this refers to the fact that it is not known which, if any, of the elements presently assigned to species of Ubinates occupied the posterior positions in the apparatus. The type species of Ubinates is U. advena by original designation (Baesemann, 1973).

The availability, authorships and dates of tribal names in the Sigmodontinae (Rodentia, Cricetidae) current classification

Bionomina ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
NÉSTOR J. CAZZANIGA ◽  
CAROLA CAÑÓN ◽  
ULYSES F.J. PARDIÑAS
Keyword(s):  
Family Group ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Name ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
Current Classification ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypotheses

Sigmodontinae, a diverse subfamily including 106 genera of American Rodents, is currently divided in eleven tribes that still need to be refined based on recently generated phylogenetic hypotheses. Several published names of tribes do not conform to one or more Rules of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. In particular, the first arrangement of Sigmodontinae genera in tribes has been overlooked, the different requirements for availability of names proposed before 1931 and after 1930 were not taken into account for at least five names, the requirement that a family-group name be used as valid in the publication where proposed, and the unavailability of names proposed conditionally after 1960 were also ignored on several occasions. Our analysis tries to disclose and fix such nomenclatural problems keeping current usage as much as possible. A new name is proposed for a tribe that currently has been designated only by an unavailable name.

Unraveling a 150 years old controversy: Calamoichthys Smith, 1866 is the valid name for the African Reedfish (Cladistii: Polypteriformes), with comments about the availability of involuntarily proposed zoological names

Bionomina ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
PEDRO P. RIZZATO ◽  
FLAVIO A. BOCKMANN
Keyword(s):  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
International Code ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
New Name

We readdress the controversy about the valid generic name to be applied to the African Reedfish, a species from a monotypic genus that, along with the eleven valid species of Polypterus Lacepède, 1803, comprises the known extant diversity of the order Polypteriformes. The initial conflict was established due to the inadequate replacement of the name Erpetoichthys, wrongly assumed preoccupied, by Calamoichthys, combined with the desynchronization between the sequence in which Smith’s accounts with descriptions and nomenclatural acts about the Reedfish were written and submitted for publication, and the sequence in which they were actually published/distributed. The controversy seemed to be settled in the 1980s by the finding of an earlier report published in an Edinburgh’s newspaper in 1865, in which the name Erpetoichthys was used prior to all scientific accounts by Smith. However, we demonstrate that this report cannot be considered to contain a valid nomenclatural act according to the regulations of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Therefore, we undertook a detailed study to reconstruct the sequence of publication of Smith’s accounts on the Reedfish, whose correct dates of publication/distribution had not been properly established yet, to settle down once and for all the dilemma about the precedence of these names. Our conclusion is that Calamoichthys Smith, 1866a is the valid generic name to be applied to the Reedfish, and Erpetoichthys Smith, 1866a, its junior synonym, represents a name published in synonymy but later made available by Smith himself. We use the nomenclatural example of the Reedfish, as well as other cases from the literature, to draw attention to the fact that, in agreement with Article 8.1.1 of the Code, zoological names are available only when there is an unequivocal intention by their authors to scientifically describe them, even if other requirements of the Code are met. When this Article is not met in a given situation, the name is considered unavailable and an available one should be set in place for the taxon, or a new name should be proposed.

Pseudanthias vizagensis, a junior synonym of Pseudanthias pillai Heemstra & Akhilesh, 2012 (Perciformes: Serranidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4890 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
K.V. AKHILESH ◽  
T.G. KISHORE ◽  
M. MUKTHA ◽  
M.W. LISHER ◽  
GOP P. AMBARISH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Arabian Sea ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
Andaman Sea ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Additional Material ◽  
Bay Of Bengal Coast

Pseudanthias vizagensis Krishna, Rao and Venu, 2017 was described from 44 specimens, collected from Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), on the Bay of Bengal coast of India, but without clear designation of a holotype. The characters used for differentiating the species from its nearest congener Pseudanthias pillai Heemstra & Akhilesh, 2012, a species currently known only from the northern Indian Ocean, were limited, poor and substantially overlapping. Examination of additional material of P. pillai from the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and comparison with the original description and images of P. vizagensis revealed that the latter is a junior synonym of P. pillai. Diagnostic characters are reviewed, additional morphological details and fresh colouration, including sexual dimorphic characters not covered in previous works are provided. 

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