Frank-Thorsten Krell, “Suppressing works of contemporary authors using the Code’s publication requirements is neither easy nor advisable”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. , 2021.

In times of increasing easiness to produce publications, attempts have been made to use the Code’s requirements for publication to declare controversial works unavailable. I advise against such strategy, because in this day and age, these requirements are very easily met by anybody and their violation very difficult to....

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Sheikh Sajan, Basudev Tripathy, Robert H. Cowie, “Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Systellommatophora, Veronicellidae) is the valid name for a widespread genus of slugs, including the highly invasive Laevicaulis alte (Férussac, 1822)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. 160-164, 2021.

The validity of Laevicaulis Simroth, 1913 as the objective senior synonym of Eleutherocaulis Simroth, 1913, both published simultaneously in a complex and  confusing work as genus-group names for veronicellid slugs, is confirmed. The type  species, in....

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Robert H. Cowie, Sheikh Sajan, Basudev Tripathy, Neal L. Evenhuis, “Vaginulus Férussac, 1822, not Vaginula auctt. is the valid name for a genus of slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Systellommatophora, Veronicellidae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. , 2021.

There has been, and to some extent remains, confusion over the valid genus name for a group of slugs in the family Veronicellidae, either  Vaginulus  Férussac, 1822 or  Vaginula  auctt., often cited as of Berthold, 1827 or sometimes as of Blainville, 1828. We show that  Vaginula  was first made available as an emendation....

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