Showing papers on "Synonym (taxonomy) published in 1971"

The North and Central American Species of Rhabdochona Railliet 1916 (Nematoda: Rhabdochonidae) of Fishes, Including Rhabdochona canadensis sp.nov.

Abstract: The systematics of the representatives of the genus Rhabdochona, parasitic in fishes of North and Central America, is revised. Rhabdochona cascadilla Wigdor 1918, R. kidderi Pearse 1936, R. decaturensis Gustafson 1949, R. cotti Gustafson 1949, R. ovifilamenta Weller 1938, R. milled Choquette 1951, and R. canadensis sp.nov. are considered as the valid species of this region. The first six species are redescribed and illustrated. The new species, R. canadensis, is described from the cyprinids Hybopsis gracilis (flathead chub; type host), H. plumbea (lake chub), and Rhinichthys cataractae (longnose dace) of Alberta; the latter form is characterized largely by the presence of one or two long filaments at each pole of the eggs, by 14 teeth in the prostom, by the presence of the cuticular spike at the tip of the tail, and by the character of the spicules. The species R. pellucida Gustafson 1949 is regarded as a synonym of R. cascadilla Gustafson 1949, and R. laurentiana Lyster 1940 as a synonym of R. ovifilamen...

Chelodesmid studies v: Some new, redefined, and resurrected Brasilian genera

Abstract: A semirevisionary treatment of four large and nomenclatorially important chelodesmid genera of southeastern Brasil, based upon material received from the Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, and the recent examination of many type specimens in European museums. Leptodesmus (de Saussure, 1859) is redefined in a more exclusive sense to include 21 species, with the new forms L. acuminatus (Goias), L. cochranae (RJ), and L. defensus (Goias); several established species are redescribed; the better-known forms are tentatively dispersed among six subgeneric groups. Goyazodesmus (Schubart, 1952) is regarded as a junior subjective synonym. Eurydesmus (de Saussure, 1860) is considered in a broad sense to include as synonyms Chelodesmus Cook, 1895, Pseudoeurydesmus Schubart, 1944, Pseudoeurydesmella Schubart, 1951, Peltoeurydesmus Schubart, 1956, and Aneurydesmus Schubart, 1956; variations in ozopore formula being dismissed as generic or subgeneric characters. The status of the old names E. angulatus and Leptodesmus biconicus is discussed in detail; Polydesmus zebratus Gervais is brought into Eurydesmus with E. ruidus Schubart as a junior synonym; the new name E. brolemanni is proposed for specimens from Sao Paulo incorrectly identified by Attems as E. angulatus. The 17 accredited names are tentatively arranged into four subgeneric groups. The subgeneric name Brasilodesmus (Brolemann, 1929) is revised as the valid designation, for a group of ten species chiefly from Sao Paulo with B. paulistanus as the type, the gonopods of this species and those of B. corrugatus and B. centropus are illustrated; taxonomic notes are provided for most of the recognized forms. A new generic name, Henrisaussurea, is proposed for a group of species related to the type H. corcovadis (Brolemann): the remarkable history of the latter is discussed in detail with L. biconicus Attems, L. cerasinus Attems, and L. jawlowskii Schubart considered as junior synonyms.

Scandinavian Bucculatrix Z. (Lep. Bucculatricidae)

Abstract: In Scandinavia there are at present I7 known posed to be conspecific with ratisbonensis Stt., a species of the genus Bucculatrix. A short descrip- species often confused with artemisiae HS. Instead tion of each species and figures of wings and male of boyerella Dup. the older name albedinella Z. and female genitalia are given. They are arranged should be used, and merei P.-C. is stated to be a according to these characters and also according to synonym of capreella H. Krog. food-plants. The American leptalea Braun is sup-

Some Synonymies in the Molluscan Family Cymatiidae

Abstract: Figures are published for the first time of Simpulum papillosum A. Adams, 1870 (= Bufonariella ranelloides (Reeve)) and Triton obscurus A. Adams, 1854 (= Septa (Cabeslanimorpha) tabulata durbanensis (E. A. Smith), non Triton obscurus Reeve, 1844). Triton toebbeckel Lischke, 1870, usually regarded as the earliest name for the Japanese subspecies of Septa (Cabestanimorpha) tabulaia, is a synonym of Tritoniscus labiosus (Wood, 1828). The earliest name for the Japanese form of S. tabulata is Lotorium kilensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1915; type specimens of L. kilensis are figured. Triton imbricata W. H. D. Adams, 1868, published in “The Mysteries of the Ocean”, is a synonym of Charonia tritonis tritonis. The date of publication of Cryotritonium von Martens is discussed: Fusitriton Cossmann is the valid name for the genus. The name Gyrineum (Biplex) jacundum (A. Adams, 1853) is used instead of the preoccupied Biplex pulchelia (Forbes) , and a neotype is designated for Ranella jacunda A. Adams.

Solenocera indica Nataraj, one of the commercially important penaeid prawns of Indian waters as a synonym of Solenocera crassicornis (H. Milne Edwards)

Abstract: The validity of the specific name Solenocera crassicornis (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) is discussed nad Solenocera indica Nataraj (1945), a commercially important penaeid prawn from Indian seas is shown to be a synonym of the former.

The Philippine subspecies of Centropus bengalensis (Gmelin) (Aves, Cuculidae)

Abstract: The Philippine populations of Centropus bengalensis had been generally included in the widely distributed subspecies C. b. javanensis (Dumont), type locality Java, until Deignan (1955) observed that the population of Palawan is actually referable to this subspecies, but: "that those of other islands are separable by having, in fresh plumage, increased nigrescence of the anterior upper parts, the black or blackish area usually extending to the center of the back". For this subspecies Deignan used the name C. molkenboeri Bonaparte (1850: 108, "ex Philippinis"), which had been listed as a synonym of C. b. javanensis by Shelley (1891), Stresemann (1912) and Hachisuka (1934-1935). Parkes (1957) confirmed and amplified Deignan's findings as regards the distinctness of the Philippine race, concluding his paper with the remark : "the purpose of this note is to introduce the combination Centropus bengalensis molkenboeri into current taxonomie literature so that it may be used without burdensome explanation in forthcoming papers". In a later paper, Parkes (1965) has again discussed the characters of the Philippine subspecies of C. bengalensis, using, as in his previous paper, the name C. b. molkenboeri for it. Although I am not aware that the name molkenboeri in the combination C. b. molkenboeri has been used by other authors (in the post-Parkes publications by Ripley & Rabor, 1958, and Rand & Rabor, 1960, the name C. b. javanensis was still applied to Philippine birds), its use has not been challenged either and for that reason, and before that combination becomes too firmly entrenched in literature, I want to state that the holotype of C. molkenboeri is still in our collection, and that it does not belong to the

The lizard Leiolopisma smithi Cochran: a junior secondary homonym of Mocoa smithii Gray

Abstract: A recent note (Campden-Main, 1969) declares the name Leiolopisma smithi Cochran, 1941, subjectively unavailable as a junior synonym of Leiolopisma eunice Cochran, 1927, both based on Thailand material. Rather remarkably, L. smithi Cochran has been objectively (although not irreversibly) unavailable from the time of its first proposal as a junior secondary homonym of the New Zealand Mocoa smithii Gray, 1845, which was placed in " Liolepisma " as early as 1897 (Lucas and Frost, 1897:277), in "Lygosoma (Leiolopisma)" as early as 1937 (Smith, 1937:223), and has regularly been placed in Leiolopisma ever since McCann's monograph appeared in 1955 (p. 96). According to Article 59 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a junior secondary homonym (the younger of two names now placed in the same nominal genus but originally proposed in different nominal genera) is unavailable so long as it is regarded congeneric with the senior name, but, with one exception, is available for use if allocated to a different genus from that of the senior name. The exception involves only those junior secondary homonyms objectively replaced prior to 1961 because of their junior homonymy; such names cannot be revived even when placed in a genus different from the senior name. Leiolopisma smithi Cochran, 1941, is clearly a junior secondary homonym of Leiolopisma smithii (Gray, 1845). It need not, however, be replaced objectively since Leiolopisma eunice Cochran, 1927, is a subjective synonym (senior, at that), according to CampdenMain (1969). If, on the contrary, any future worker declares Leiolopisma smithi Cochran a species distinct from eunice and from any other named species, it would have to receive a substitute name, assuming that it remains in the same genus as Mocoa smithii Gray. It is extraordinary that this homonymy has been so widely overlooked. Mocoa smithii Gray is treated in Boulenger's Catalog (1887: 274) and in Malcolm Smith's group revision (1937:223), but was overlooked by Cochran (1941), Taylor (1963), and Campden-Main (1969); and Leiolopisma smithi Cochran was overlooked in Mittleman's group synopsis (1952) and in McCann's regional review (1955). The literature citations to these names of which we are aware are as follows.

Notes on the genus Aphistogoniulus Silvestri (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Trigoniulidae)

Abstract: In this paper the species referable to the genus Aphistogoniulus Silvestri, 1897, are enumerated and their status is briefly discussed. Mystalides Attems, 1910, is a junior subjective synonym. Two species from Madagascar, A. quadridentatus (Attems, 1910) and A. polleni nov. spec., are described after material in the collection of the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. The gonopods of a male from the type series of A. hova (De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897) are depicted. The name A. brolemanni nov. spec. is proposed for the material referred to A. hova by Brolemann, 1922.

Studies on some Aeolothripids (Thysanoptera)

Abstract: This paper deals with some Aeolothripids. Aeolothrips distinctus, sp. nov. is described from India. A. kurosawai is proposed as a new name to replace conjunctus Kurosawa (preoccupied by conjunctus Priesner). Gelothrips Bhatti is elevated to generic rank and variability in G. cinctus (Hood) is discussed. G. alis Bhatti is a new synonym of cinctus. Streothrips, gen. nov. with Aeolothrips arorai Bhatti as the type is described.

The Diplopod Genus Polyzonium in North America

Abstract: The genotype, P. germanicum Brandt, of Europe, is redescribed and illustrated as are the American bivirgatum (Wood), rosalbum (Cope), bikermani and mutabile Causey. P. cryptocephalum (McNeill) is reduced to a synonym of rosalbum (Cope). Four new species are described, illustrated, and included in a key of all American species.

The taxonomic status of Rattus dammermani Thomas and Rattus toxi Sody (Rodentia, Muridae) of Celebes

Abstract: Rattus dammermani Thomas, 1921 is known from southwestern Celebes. Rattus toxi Sody, 1941 is a subjective synonym of that taxon. Although the name dammermani has been listed in the literature as a subspecies of R. rattus, it is actually a valid species that is morphologically more closely related to R. rattus than to any other species of Rattus known from Celebes.

Emended Publication Dates for Certain Fish Species Described by E. D. Cope, with Notes on the Type Material of Notropis photogenis (Cope)

Abstract: Description and original reference dates usually cited for a number of fish species described by Edward D. Cope between 1862 and 1869 are incorrect. Proper dates and references are given for these species. This paper also discusses the reasons for past uncertainty concerning the publication date of Cope's "Synopsis of the Cyprinidae of Pennsylvania" and two short supplementary papers immediately following, which have been cited as appearing either on or between 1866 and 1869. Study of the two syntypes (?) of Notropis photogenis (Cope, 1865) shows them to be Notropis spilopterus (Cope, 1868). Cope's original description of Squalius photogenis, however, leaves no doubt that he had the species presently called the silver shiner, Notropis photogenis. Cope (in Giinther, 1868) subsequently confused the nomenclature of N. photogenis by introducing the name Photogenis leucops, which he erroneously used as a senior synonym of photogenis. Fowler (1910) illustrated and labelled as "type" of Squalius photogenis a specimen which, judging from its meristic and morphological features, could not have been based on either of the specimens presently in the "type" jar. Fowler's action qualifies as a lectotype designation, but the specimen on which the drawing was based has either been lost or misplaced. The type series of Photogenis leucops (a junior synonym of N. photogenis) is complex, and a lectotype is consequently designated for purposes of nomenclatural stability.