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Opinion 2394: Conus antidiluvianus Bruguière, 1792: prevailing usage of specific name conserved by setting aside the unidentifiable lectotype and replacing it with a neotype (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conidae)

ICZN, “Opinion 2394: Conus antidiluvianus Bruguière, 1792: prevailing usage of specific name conserved by setting aside the unidentifiable lectotype and replacing it with a neotype (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conidae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 73, pp. , 2017.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its plenary power to conserve the specific name for the fossil cone shell  Conus antidiluvianus  Bruguière, 1792 by designating a neotype. The name is placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology.

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Case 3668: Conus antidiluvianus Bruguière, 1792 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conidae): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of specific name by setting aside the unidentifiable lectotype and replacing it with a neotype. 

Janssen, A. W., Janssen, R., Tracey, S., Vaessen, L.M.B., Voort, J. van der , “Case 3668: Conus antidiluvianus Bruguière, 1792 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conidae): proposed conservation of prevailing usage of specific name by setting aside the unidentifiable lectotype and replacing it with a neotype. ”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. , 2014.

The purpose of this application, under Article 75.5 of the Code, is to conserve prevailing usage of the specific name  Conus antidiluvianus  Bruguière, 1792 for a Neogene fossil cone shell, widely distributed in Europe. The type locality stated in the original description was an Eocene site in the east....

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