Reversal of precedence using the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to maintain prevailing usage of Macrotoma Audinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

2006 ◽  
Vol 111 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-127
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Heffern ◽  
Antonio Santos-Silva ◽  
Gérard Luc Tavakilian ◽  
Ziro Komiya ◽  
Gianfranco Sama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code

The ICZN amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-327
Keyword(s):  
International Commission ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Electronic Publications

Following four years of highly charged debate the rules for publication of scientific names of animals have been changed to allow electronic publications to meet the requirements of the stringent International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. In a landmark decision, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has passed an amendment to its rules that will accept an electronic-only publication as ‘legitimate’ if it meets criteria of archiving and the publication is registered on the ICZN’s official online registry, ZooBank. A brief discussion of the amendment is available from: Zootaxa : http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3450.html Zookeys: http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/3944/

New family of Crustacea (Calanoida) – Rostrocalanidae fam. nov.: making the name available

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
E.L. Markhaseva ◽  
K. Schulz ◽  
P. Martinez Arbizu
Keyword(s):  
Family Group ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Family

Recently, we (Markhaseva et al., 2008) introduced a family-group name Rostrocalanidae for a new family of clausocalanoid copepods but the name is unavailable for it does not meet the conditions of Art. 16.2. of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Here, the Rostrocalanidae fam. nov. is established in a way that makes the name available.

Nomenclatoral changes for some Pseudophyllinae (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1781 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
HOLGER BRAUN ◽  
MICHAEL D. MAEHR
Keyword(s):  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code

Recently Özdikmen (2007 & 2008) proposed substitute names for two generic names in the subfamily Pseudophyllinae which are junior homonyms: Colobotettix Beier 1960 (preoccupied by a leafhopper genus) was renamed Beierotettix and Alloschema Beier 1954 (preoccupied by a weevil) became Beieroschema. Similarly in accordance with article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) we propose substitute names for two additional genus group names in the same subfamily, concerning also Neotropical taxa described by Beier.

Multiple original spellings, living authors and the Code: The case of Malachius raniansis Mawlood, Hammamurad & Abdulla, 2017 (Coleoptera: Melyridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4927 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
ISIDOR S. PLONSKI
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Present Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World

The present communication is primarily nomenclaturial–classical taxonomy is only touched in a side note on a diagnosis. It uses technical terminology coined by Alain Dubois, who is interested in the study of the concepts and theory of biological nomenclature (i.e. the “objective connection between the real world of populations of organisms and the world of language” (Dubois & Ohler 1997)), and who discusses the current ‘International Code for Zoological Nomenclature’ [hereafter just called ‘the Code’] in great detail. The terms are explained where necessary–but see also the glossaries in Dubois et al. (2019) and the works by A. Dubois cited below. 

On the availability of the name Poecilia kempkesi Poeser 2013 (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4927 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-296
Author(s):  
PEDRO H. N. BRAGANÇA ◽  
FELIPE P. OTTONI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Poecilia Reticulata ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Fourth Species

The poeciliid species, Poecilia kempkesi Poeser, 2013, was the fourth species of the subgenus Acanthophacelus Eigenmann, 1907 to be described, based on individuals from a single urban anthropized locality close to Paramaribo, Suriname (Poeser, 2013). The description itself lacked any section clearly distinguishing the new species from the remaining species of Poecilia Bloch & Schneider 1801, and in particular from the species of the subgenus Acanthophacelus, type species Poecilia reticulata Peters, 1859. According to Article 13 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999) the criteria of availability for a species-group name are: 

scholarly journals The Linz Zoocode project: a set of new proposals regarding the terminology, the Principles and Rules of zoological nomenclature. First report of activities (2014‒2019)

Bionomina ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAIN DUBOIS ◽  
AARON M. BAUER ◽  
LUIS M.P. CERÍACO ◽  
FRANÇOIS DUSOULIER ◽  
THIERRY FRÉTEY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Status ◽  
International Body ◽  
The Creation

In July 2014, the international meeting “Burning questions and problems of zoological nomenclature” was held in Linz (Austria). It acknowledged the presence in the current International Code of Zoological Nomenclature of a number of severe problems, and accordingly decided the creation of a new international body, the Linz Zoocode Committee (LZC), in charge of writing the Linz Zoocode, a set of new proposals regarding the terminology, the Principles and Rules of zoological nomenclature. Here we present the first report of the activities of this Committee, covering the period 2014‒2019. It contains the presentation of our work, and the first documents adopted by the Committee: the Preamble and Principles of the Zoocode, the description of its structure and a first instalment of the Zoocode Glossary. The Zoocode regulates the status of zoological nomina and nomenclatural acts (onomatergies). Its aim is to provide an explicit, precise and objective nomenclatural system for the unambiguous and universal naming of all zoological taxa recognised by taxonomists, so that, in the frame of a given classification, the nomen of each taxon is unique and distinct. It relies on a Nomenclatural Process consisting in four main stages: nomenclatural assignment and availability, taxonomic allocation, nomenclatural validity and correctness, and registration of nomina and onomatergies. Whereas the Code currently in force is based on six stated Principles, the Zoocode recognises 17 distinct ones. We here submit these documents to the consideration of the international community of zootaxonomists, in the perspective of the incorporation of these proposals into the next version of the Code.

scholarly journals The nomenclaturally correct names of some family-groups in Coleoptera

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Silfverberg
Keyword(s):  
Family Group ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Family Groups

The International Code on Zoological Nomenclature demands changes in the use of certain family-group names. Stenotrachelidae Thomson, 1859, is senior to Cephaloidae LeConte, 1862. Within Cholevidae, Leptodirinae Lacordaire, 1854 (1849), is senior to Bathysciinae Horn, 1880, and within Curculionidae, Erirhininae Schönherr, 1825, to Notarinae Zumpt, 1929. In Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae, the invalid name Monachini Chapuis, 1874, is replaced with Monachulini Leng,1920,and in Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae, the invalid name Sermylini Chapuis, 1875, with Hylaspini Chapuis, 1875.

scholarly journals Nomenclature of supra-generic units within the Family Scincidae (Squamata)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5067 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-351
Author(s):  
GLENN M. SHEA
Keyword(s):  
Family Group ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
New Classification ◽  
The Family ◽  
Modern Classification

The modern classification of skinks is based on a nomenclature that dates to the 1970s. However, there are a number of earlier names in the family group that have been overlooked by recent workers. These names are identified and their validity with respect to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature investigated, along with their type genera. In most cases, use of these names to supplant junior synonyms in modern day use is avoidable by use of the Reversal of Precedence articles of the Code, but the names remain available in case of future divisions at the tribe and subtribe level. Other names are unavailable due to homonymy, either of their type genera or the stems from similar but non-homonymous type genera. However, the name Egerniini is replaced by Tiliquini, due to a limited timespan of use of Egerniini. A new classification of the Family Scincidae is proposed, providing a more extensive use of Code-regulated levels of classification, including tribes and subtribes, and a detailed synonymy provided for each taxonomic unit.  

scholarly journals One name to rule them all: Belinurus trilobitoides (Buckland, ) is senior synonym to fourteen named species

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C. Lamsdell
Keyword(s):  
Type Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Junior Synonym ◽  
International Commission ◽  
Zoological Nomenclature ◽  
International Code ◽  
Senior Synonym ◽  
Horseshoe Crabs ◽  
The Subject

One of the oldest fossil horseshoe crabs figured in the literature is Entomolithus lunatus Martin, 1809, a Carboniferous species included in his Petrificata Derbiensia. While the species has generally been included within the genus Belinurus Bronn, 1839, it was recently used as the type species of the new genus Parabelinurus Lamsdell, 2020. However, recent investigation as to the appropriate authority for Belinurus (see Lamsdell and Clapham, 2021) revealed that all the names in Petrificata Derbiensia were suppressed in Opinion 231 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1954) for being consistently nonbinomial under Article 11.4 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999). Despite the validation of several species names for anthozoans, brachiopods, and cephalopods described in Petrificata Derbiensia in subsequent rulings (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956a, b), Belinurus lunatus has not been the subject of any subsequent Commission ruling or opinion, and so its use in Petrificata Derbiensia remains suppressed. The Belinurus lunatus species name was used in several subsequent publications during the 1800s, none of which made the name available under ICZN article 11.5; Parkinson (1811) is also suppressed for being nonbinomial, while Woodward (1830), Buckland (1837), Bronn (1839), and Baily (1859) refer to the species only as a synonym of Belinurus trilobitoides (Buckland, 1837) through citation to the suppressed Pretificata Derbiensia. The first author to make Belinurus lunatus an available name was Baldwin (1905), who used the name in reference to a new figured specimen from Sparth Bottoms, Rochdale, UK, but again as an explicit junior synonym of Belinurus trilobitoides (Buckland, 1837). Therefore, it was not until Eller (1938) treated B. lunatus as a distinct species from B. trilobitoides that B. lunatus became an available name as per ICZN Article 11.6.1 under the authorship of Baldwin (1905) following ICZN Article 50.7.

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