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Opinion 2449: Anolis chlorocyanus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 and Anolis coelestinus Cope, 1862 (Reptilia, Squamata): conservation of usage of specific names by designation of a neotype for the former species not approved

ICZN, “Opinion 2449: Anolis chlorocyanus Duméril & Bibron, 1837 and Anolis coelestinus Cope, 1862 (Reptilia, Squamata): conservation of usage of specific names by designation of a neotype for the former species not approved”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

he International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has declined to use its plenary power to designate a neotype for  Anolis chlorocyanus  Duméril & Bibron, 1837. As a result, the specific name  Anolis chlorocyanus  Duméril & Bibron, 1837, will have priority over  A. coelestinus  Cope, 1862 as the valid name for the....

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Opinion 2450: Geophilus alpinus Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): specific name not conserved

ICZN, “Opinion 2450: Geophilus alpinus Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): specific name not conserved”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has declined to use its plenary power to conserve the specific name of  Geophilus alpinus  Meinert, 1870 for a European species of geophilomorph centipede. As a result, the name  impressus  C.L. Koch, 1847 as published in the binomen  Geophilus impressus  has priority over....

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Case 3673: Geophilus alpinus Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name

Lucio Bonato, Alessandro Minelli, “Case 3673: Geophilus alpinus Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. , 2015.

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name  Geophilus alpinus  Meinert, 1870 for a widespread European species of geophilomorph centipedes. This name, currently in use, is threatened by the subjective synonyms  Geophilus impressus  C.L. Koch, 1847 and  Geophilus palustris  C.L. Koch, 1863, which have....

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Case 3674: Collohmannia Sellnick, 1922 (Arachnida, Acari, Oribatida): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over the senior subjective synonym Embolacarus Sellnick, 1919

Roy A. Norton, Ekaterina A. Sidorchuk, “Case 3674: Collohmannia Sellnick, 1922 (Arachnida, Acari, Oribatida): proposed conservation by giving it precedence over the senior subjective synonym Embolacarus Sellnick, 1919”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. , 2015.

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Opinion 2451: Tupinambis indicus Daudin, 1802 (currently Varanus indicus; Reptilia, Squamata): specific name conserved

ICZN, “Opinion 2451: Tupinambis indicus Daudin, 1802 (currently Varanus indicus; Reptilia, Squamata): specific name conserved”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its plenary power to conserve the accustomed usage of the specific names of  Varanus indicus  (Daudin, 1802) and  Varanus chlorostigma Gray, 1831 by replacing the neotype specimen of  Tupinambis indices  Daudin, 1802 with a new neotype that belongs to the original taxonomic....

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Case 3676: Tupinambis indicus Daudin, 1802 (currently Varanus indicus; Reptilia, Squamata): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by replacement of the neotype

Valter Weijola, “Case 3676: Tupinambis indicus Daudin, 1802 (currently Varanus indicus; Reptilia, Squamata): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by replacement of the neotype”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. , 2015.

The purpose of this application, under Article 75.6 of the Code, is to designate a new neotype for the mangrove monitor  Varanus indicus  (Daudin, 1802), which is endemic to the Moluccan islands of Indonesia. The recent choice of an unrepresentative specimen to serve as neotype for this nominal species....

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Case 3678: A proposal to affirm that ‘Formenkreis’ is not a genus-group taxonomic rank with potential availability

Edmund Gittenberger, “Case 3678: A proposal to affirm that ‘Formenkreis’ is not a genus-group taxonomic rank with potential availability”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. , 2015.

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Case 3680: Geophilus bonensis Meinert, 1870 (currently Gnathoribautia bonensis; Chilopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name

Lucio Bonato, Alessandro Minelli, “Case 3680: Geophilus bonensis Meinert, 1870 (currently Gnathoribautia bonensis; Chilopoda): proposed conservation of the specific name”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. , 2015.

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name  Geophilus bonensis  Meinert, 1870 for a species of geophilomorph centipede, currently classified in the genus  Gnathoribautia  Brölemann, 1909.  G. bonensis  is universally considered the valid name for this species after 1963 and it has....

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Opinion 2452: Geophilus bonensis Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): specific name not conserved

ICZN, “Opinion 2452: Geophilus bonensis Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): specific name not conserved”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has declined to use its plenary power to conserve the specific name of  Geophilus bonensis  Meinert, 1870 (currently  Gnathoribautia bonensis ) for a species of geophilomorph centipede. As a result, the name  punctiventris  Newport, 1844, as published in the binomen  Necrophloeophagus punctiventris ,....

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Case 3681: Liancalus Loew, 1857 and Scellus Loew, 1857 (Insecta, Diptera, Dolichopodidae): proposed conservation of the names by designation of Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 as type species for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856

Justin B. Runyon, Michael A. Ivie, Neal L. Evenhuis, “Case 3681: Liancalus Loew, 1857 and Scellus Loew, 1857 (Insecta, Diptera, Dolichopodidae): proposed conservation of the names by designation of Dolichopus regius Fabricius, 1805 as type species for Anoplomerus Rondani, 1856”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. , 2015.

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