Editorial News and Notes

EDITORIAL NEWS AND NOTES

BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 68(2): 220, 2001

The following application was published on 29 September 2000 in Vol. 57, Part 3 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Comment or advice on this application is invited for publication in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature and should be sent to the Ex- ecutive Secretary (I.C.Z.N.), c/o The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, Lon- don SW7 5BD, UK. E-mail: .

Case 3166 Campanularia noliformis McCrady, 1859 (currently Clytia noliformis; Cnidaria, Hydrozoa): proposed conservation of the specific name by the designation of a neotype

Alberto Lindner Centro de Biologia Marinha, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 83, 11600-970, São Sebastião, SP, Brazil; Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, travessa 14, no 101, 05508-900, Cidade Universitária, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. E-mail: .

Dale R. Calder Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada MSS 2C6; Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M55 1 A1. E-mail: .

Abstract. The purpose of this application is to conserve the name Clytia noliformis (McCrady, 1859) for a well-known marine hydroid (family CAMPANULARIIDAE). McCrady’s (1859) type material of C. noliformis is lost but the hydroid he described is now believed to have been a different species from C. noliformis auct. and perhaps conspecific with C. hemisphaerica (Linnaeus, 1767). It is proposed that a neotype be designated for C. noliformis in accord with usage during the past 100 yrs. The species noliformis as currently understood occurs circumtropically and is common on pelagic Sargassum and benthic substrates.

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220 | 220 The following application was published on 21 December 2000 in Vol. 57, Part 4 of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Comment or advice on this application is invited for publication in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature and should be sent to the Ex- ecutive Secretary (I.C.Z.N.), c/o The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK. E-mail: .

Case 3163 Holacanthus dilaris bermudensis Goode, 1876 (currently Holacanthus bermudensis; Osteichthyes, Perciformes): proposed conservation of usage of the subspecific name by the designation of a neotype

Carter R. Gilbert Department of Natural Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P.O. Box 117800, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800. E-mail:

and the other members of the joint Common and Scientific Names Committee of the American Fisheries Society and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetolo- gists: Joseph S. Nelson (Chairman) (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada), Edwin J. Crossman (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Hector Espinosa-Perez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, D.F, Mexico), Lloyd T. Findley (CIAD-Unidad Guaymas, Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico), Robert N. Lea (California Fish and Game, Monterey, California, U.S.A.) and James D. Williams (United States Geologi- cal Survey, Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A.).

Abstract. The purpose of this application is to conserve the subspecific name of Holacanthus ciliaris bermudensis Goode, 1876 (currently cited as Holacanthus bermudensis) for the blue angelfish (family POMACANTHIDAE), a common, relatively wide- spread and visually prominent marine reef-dwelling species occurring in the tropical Western Atlantic. Goode’s (1876) original description was based partly of entirely on hybrids (a total of 12 syntypes) between the blue angelfish and the closely related queen angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758) and, under Article 23.8 of the Code, H. bermudensis is not a valid name for the parent species. It is proposed that a neotype for H. bermudensis be designated in accord with the current usage of the name.