International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

Case 3485

Overview

Case 3485: Lychnorhiza lucerna Haeckel, 1880 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae): proposed conservation of generic and specific names.

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2009
Authors: Morandini, A. C.
Journal:Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Volume:66
Issue:3
Start Page:242
Pagination:
Date Published:09/2009
Type of Article:Case
Keywords: Central and South America, Cnidaria, Lychnorhiza, Lychnorhiza lucerna, LYCHNORHIZIDAE, Malayan Archipelago, Nomenclature, Rhizostoma, Rhizostoma cruciata, Rhizostomeae, Scyphozoa, scyphozoan jellyfish, taxonomy
Abstract:

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the generic name Lychnorhiza Haeckel, 1880 for a genus of scyphozoan jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) from Central and South America and the Malayan Archipelago. The name is threatened by a senior synonym, Rhacopilus Agassiz, 1862, unused since its original description. It is also proposed to conserve the specific name Lychnorhiza lucerna Haeckel, 1880 (type species of the genus Lychnorhiza). The nomenclatural stability of this name is threatened by a senior subjective synonym, Rhizostoma cruciata Lesson, 1830.

Full Text:

https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v66i3.a3

Case:
Case 3485

Volume/Issue:
66(3)

Taxonomic Group(s):
Cnidaria, Rhizostomeae, Scyphozoa

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Opinions

Opinion 2412: Lychnorhiza lucerna Haeckel, 1880 (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae): generic and specific names not conserved; and Rhizostoma cruciatum Lesson, 1830: neotype designated
Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2018
Authors: ICZN
Journal:Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Volume:75
Issue:
Start Page:172
Pagination:
Date Published:09/2018
Type of Article:Opinion
Keywords: Nomenclature, taxonomy, Cnidaria, Scyphozoa, Rhizostomeae, LYCHNORHIZIDAE, Lychnorhiza, Rhizostoma, Lychnorhiza lucerna, Rhizostoma cruciatum, scyphozoan jellyfish, Central and South America, Malayan Archipelago
Abstract:

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has not conserved the generic name Lychnorhiza Haeckel, 1880 for a genus of scyphozoan jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) that is threatened by a senior synonym, Rhacopilus Agassiz, 1862, which has not been used since its original description. The name lucerna Haeckel, 1880 (proposed in the binomen Lychnorhiza lucerna and specific name of the type species of Lychnorhiza), which is threatened by the senior subjective synonym, Rhizostoma cruciatum Lesson, 1830, was also not conserved. Instead, the Commission has made these two nominal species objective synonyms of each other under its specific powers by designating the extant holotype of the former as the neotype of the latter.

Full Text:

http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a035

Opinion:
Opinion 2412

Volume/Issue:
75

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Official Corrections

Official Correction 131: Official Correction 131 (Opinion 2412) –Ruling (2) amended
Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2018
Authors: Nomenclature, I. C. O. Z.
Journal:Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Volume:75
Issue:
Start Page:301
Pagination:
Date Published:12/2018
Type of Article:Official Correction
Keywords:
Abstract:

Published BZN 75 (31 December 2018): 301.

Full Text:

http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a068

Official Correction:
Official Correction 131

Volume/Issue:
75

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Status of Case:
Resolved (Opinion Issued)


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