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Case 3613: Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler 1964 (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): request for setting aside the name in favour of Nyctimystes cheesmanae Tyler 1964

Tyler, MJ, Menzies, JI, “Case 3613: Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler 1964 (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): request for setting aside the name in favour of Nyctimystes cheesmanae Tyler 1964”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. , 2013.

The purpose of this application, under Article 33.2.3 of the Code, is to correct the spelling  cheesmani  to  cheesmanae  for a tree frog named after Evelyn Cheesman. Following the finding that  Hyla montana   P eters & Doria, 1878  was in reality....

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Comment 3613-1:  On the setting aside of Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964 in favour of Nyctimystes cheesmanae Tyler, 1964 (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae)

Alain Dubois, “Comment 3613-1:  On the setting aside of Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964 in favour of Nyctimystes cheesmanae Tyler, 1964 (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 73, pp. , 2017.

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Opinion 2447: Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964 (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): original spelling of specific name
maintained

ICZN, “Opinion 2447: Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964 (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): original spelling of specific name
maintained”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 77, pp. , 2020.

The International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature has declined to emend to cheesemanae the spelling of the specific name of a hylid tree frog from Papua New Guinea, Nyctimystes cheesmani Tyler, 1964.

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Case 3666: DICROGLOSSIDAE Dubois, 1987 (Amphibia, Anura): proposed conservation

Annemarie Ohler, A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe, Franco Andreone, Aaron Bauer, Leo Borkin, Alan Channing, Yodchaiy Chuaynkern, Indraneil Das, Kaushik Deuti, Thierry Frétey, Masafumi Matsui, Truong Nguyen, R. Alexander Pyron, Mark Oliver Rödel, Gabriel Hoinsoude, “Case 3666: DICROGLOSSIDAE Dubois, 1987 (Amphibia, Anura): proposed conservation”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 71, no. 4, 2014.

The purpose of this application, under Article 81 of the Code, is to conserve the name DICROGLOSSIDAE Dubois, 1987 for a family of frogs. Analysis of the publication where the name DICROGLOSSIDAE was first used (Anderson, 1871) showed that this was an incorrect subsequent spelling of DISCOGLOSSIDAE Günther, 1858....

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Case 3716: CASE 3716: ACRIDINA McCleay, 1821 (Insecta, Orthoptera) and ACRIDINA Mivart, 1868 (Amphibia, Anura): resolution of homonymy between family-group names.

Savage, J.M, Frost, D.R., “Case 3716: CASE 3716: ACRIDINA McCleay, 1821 (Insecta, Orthoptera) and ACRIDINA Mivart, 1868 (Amphibia, Anura): resolution of homonymy between family-group names.”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature,

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Case 3833: Hyla prasina Burmeister, 1856 (currently Boana prasina; Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): proposed precedence over Hyla quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828

Henrique C. Costa, Diego J. Santana, Francisco Kolenc, Diego Baldo, Ulisses Caramaschi, Alain Dubois, Annemarie Ohler, “Case 3833: Hyla prasina Burmeister, 1856 (currently Boana prasina; Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae): proposed precedence over Hyla quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature,

Noticed in BZN 77: 113 on 30 December 2020.

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