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Opinion 2480: Diphyini Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae): spelling emended to Diphyaini to remove homonymy with Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophorae)

ICZN, “Opinion 2480: Diphyini Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae): spelling emended to Diphyaini to remove homonymy with Diphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophorae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. 152-154, 2021.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has used its plenary power to emend the spelling of the family-group name D iphyini Simon, 1894 (Araneae) to remove homonymy with D iphyidae Quoy & Gaimard, 1827 (Hydrozoa). The stem of the spider generic name....

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Case 3775: Megaperidae Manter, 1934 and Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942 (Platyhelminthes, Digenea): proposed re-establishment of precedence of the older family-group name.

Charles K. Blend, Yasser F. M. Karar, Norman O. Dronen, “Case 3775: Megaperidae Manter, 1934 and Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942 (Platyhelminthes, Digenea): proposed re-establishment of precedence of the older family-group name.”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 76, pp. , 2019.

The purpose of this application, under Articles 78.1 and 81.1 of the Code, is to suspend the application of Art. 35.5 so as to re-establish the precedence of Megaperidae Manter, 1934 over Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942 for certain digenean trematodes of fish. Both names have been used as valid in....

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Case 3777: Clausilia index Mousson, 1863, Clausilia semilamellata Mousson, 1863, Clausilia derasa Mousson, 1863 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausilidae): proposed precedence of the specific names over three objective synonyms, Clausilia unilamellata Mousson, 1856, Clausilia multilamellata Mousson, 1856 and Clausilia firmata Mousson, 1856

Frank Walther, Bernhard Hausdorf, “Case 3777: Clausilia index Mousson, 1863, Clausilia semilamellata Mousson, 1863, Clausilia derasa Mousson, 1863 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausilidae): proposed precedence of the specific names over three objective synonyms, Clausilia unilamellata Mousson, 1856, Clausilia multilamellata Mousson, 1856 and Clausilia firmata Mousson, 1856”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. , 2018.

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific names Clausilia index Mousson, 1863, Clausilia semilamellata Mousson, 1863 and Clausilia derasa Mousson, 1863, for three terrestrial snail species (family Clausiliidae) by suppressing the unused senior synonyms....

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Opinion 2481: Clausilia index Mousson, 1863, Clausilia semilamellata Mousson, 1863, Clausilia derasa Mousson, 1863 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae): specific names conserved by suppression of the respective senior synonyms, Clausilia unilamellata Mousson, 1856, Clausilia multilamellata Mousson, 1856 and Clausilia firmata Mousson, 1856

ICZN, “Opinion 2481: Clausilia index Mousson, 1863, Clausilia semilamellata Mousson, 1863, Clausilia derasa Mousson, 1863 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae): specific names conserved by suppression of the respective senior synonyms, Clausilia unilamellata Mousson, 1856, Clausilia multilamellata Mousson, 1856 and Clausilia firmata Mousson, 1856”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. 155-157, 2021.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved  the current usage of the specific names of three terrestrial snail species, Clausilia index   Mousson, 1863, Clausilia semilamellata Mousson, 1863 and Clausilia derasa ....

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Case 3778: Clausilia quadriplicata Schmidt, 1868 (currently Quadriplicata quadriplicata; Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae): proposed conservation by suppression of the senior homonym Clausilia ventricosa var. quadriplicata Fitzinger, 1833

Frank Walther, Bernhard Hausdorf, “Case 3778: Clausilia quadriplicata Schmidt, 1868 (currently Quadriplicata quadriplicata; Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae): proposed conservation by suppression of the senior homonym Clausilia ventricosa var. quadriplicata Fitzinger, 1833”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 76, pp. , 2019.

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to suppress the unused name Clausilia ventricosa var. quadriplicata Fitzinger, 1833, in order to conserve the name Clausilia quadriplicata Schmidt, 1868 (currently Quadriplicata quadriplicata ), which has been consistently in....

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Case 3779: Petalodus Owen, 1841 (Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Petalodontidae): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype for its type species Petalodus hastingsii Owen, 1841.

Kenneth Carpenter, Wayne Itano, “Case 3779: Petalodus Owen, 1841 (Chondrichthyes, Petalodontiformes, Petalodontidae): proposed conservation of usage by designation of a neotype for its type species Petalodus hastingsii Owen, 1841.”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, pp. 241-246, 2018.

The purpose of this application, under Article 75.6 of the Code, is to confirm the availability and to maintain the usage of the genus Petalodus Owen, 1840, which is  threatened by the identity of the type specimen of its type species ....

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Case 3780: Typhlodromus californicus McGregor, 1954 (currently Neoseiulus californicus; Arachnida, Acari, Mesostigmata, Phytoseiidae): proposed conservation of current usage by designation of a neotype

Frédéric Beaulieu, Jennifer J. Beard, James A. McMurtry, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, “Case 3780: Typhlodromus californicus McGregor, 1954 (currently Neoseiulus californicus; Arachnida, Acari, Mesostigmata, Phytoseiidae): proposed conservation of current usage by designation of a neotype”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 76, pp. , 2019.

The purpose of this application, under Article 75.6 of the Code, is to conserve the current universal usage of the name Neoseiulus californicus (McGregor, 1954) (Phytoseiidae) for a mite species that is used worldwide as a commercial biological control agent. The type specimens of Typhlodromus californicus....

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Case 3781: Proposed fixation of authorship, date and type species of the genus-group name Lucerna Swainson, 1840, with preservation of the family-group name Lucerninae Swainson, 1840 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) by suppression of Lucerna Ferussac, 1821

Dietrich Kadolsky, “Case 3781: Proposed fixation of authorship, date and type species of the genus-group name Lucerna Swainson, 1840, with preservation of the family-group name Lucerninae Swainson, 1840 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) by suppression of Lucerna Ferussac, 1821”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 76, pp. , 2019.

The purpose of this application, under Article 81.2 of the Code is to protect the names Lucerna Swainson, 1840 and Lucerninae Swainson, 1840 as treated by Sei et al. (2017) by the suppression of Lucerna Férussac, 1821, a name originally published in synonymy and available....

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Case 3782: Nebela militaris Penard, 1890 (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae): proposed conservation of the specific name by giving it precedence over Nebela bursella Taranek, 1881

Clément Duckert, Quentin Blandenier, Fanny A. L. Kupferschmid, Anush Kosakyan,, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Enrique Lara, David Singer, “Case 3782: Nebela militaris Penard, 1890 (Arcellinida, Hyalospheniidae): proposed conservation of the specific name by giving it precedence over Nebela bursella Taranek, 1881”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

The purpose of this application, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the specific name Nebela militaris Penard, 1890, a junior subjective synonym of Nebela bursella Taranek, 1881 – referred to as Nebela bursella Vejdovský in the literature. Due to the....

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Opinion 2482: Orchestes Illiger, 1798 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Curculionidae): name conserved by conditional reversal of precedence with respect to Salius Schrank, 1798

ICZN, “Opinion 2482: Orchestes Illiger, 1798 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionoidea, Curculionidae): name conserved by conditional reversal of precedence with respect to Salius Schrank, 1798”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. , 2021.

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has conserved current usage of the generic name  Orchestes  Illiger, 1798 (Curculionoidea, Curculionidae), by giving it precedence over the little-used older name  Salius  Schrank, 1798 whenever these names are considered to be synonyms.

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