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VOLUME 13. Part 7 28th June 1957 pp. 201—232 THE BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE The Official Organ of THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Edited by FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Contents: Notices prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology : Page Date of commencement by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of voting on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature .. .. .. 201 Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers in certain cases . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 201 (continued back wrapper) LONDON: Printed by Order of the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature and Sold on behalf of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature by the International Trust at its Publications Office, 41, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7 1957 Price One Pound (All rights reserved) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE A. The Officers of the Commission Honorary Life President4. Dr. Karl Jordan (British Museum (Natural History), Zoological Museum, Tring, Herts, England) President4. Professor James Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Vice-President: Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (12th August 1953) Secretary : Mr. Francis Hemming (London, England) (27th July 1948) B. The Members of the Commission (Arranged in order of precedence by reference to date of election or of most recent re-election, as prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology) Professor H. Boschma (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijlce Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (1st January 1947) Senor Dr. Angel Cabrera (La Plata, Argentina) (27th July 1948) Mr. Francis Hemming (London, England) (27th July 1948) (Secretary) Dr. HenningLEMCHE (UniversitetetsZoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark) (27th July 1948) Professor Teiso Esaki (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) (17th April 1950) Professor Pierre Bonnet (Universite de Toulouse, France) (9th June 1950) Mr. Norman Denbigh Riley (British Museum (Natural History), London) (9th June 1950) Professor Dr. Tadeusz Jaczewski (Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) (15th June 1950) Professor Dr. Robert Mertens (Natur Museum u. Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a. M., Germany) (5th July 1950) Professor Dr. Erich Martin Herino (Zoologisclics Museum der Humboldt-Universitdt zu Berlin, Germany) (5th July 1950) Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (S. Paulo, Brazil) (12th August 1953) (Vice-President) Professor J. R. Dymond (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada) (12th August 1953) Professor J. Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) (President) Professor Harold E.Vokes (University of Tulane, Department of Geology, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Professor BelaHANKo (Mezbgazdasagi Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary) (12th August 1953) Dr. Norman R. Stoll (JJocie/elier Institute for Medical Research, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Mr. P. C. Sylvester-Bradley (Sheffield University, Sheffield, England) (12th August 1953) Dr. L. B. Holthtjis (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (12th August 1953) Dr. K. H. L. Key (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia) (15th October 1954) Dr. Alden H. Miller (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.) (29th October 1954) Doc. Dr. Ferdinand Prantl (Narodni Museum v Praze, Prague, Czechoslovakia) (30th October 1954) Professor Dr. Wilhelm Kuhnelt (Zoologisches Instilut der Universital, Vienna, Austria) (6th November 1954) Professor F. S. Bodenheimer (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) (11th November 1954) Professor Ernst Mayr (Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massa¬ chusetts, U.S.A.) (4th December 1954) Professor Enrico Tortonese (Museo di Storia Naturale " Q. Doria," Genova, Italy) (16th December 1954) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Volume 13, Part 7 (pp. 201—232) 28th June 1957 NOTICES PRESCRIBED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ZOOLOGY The following notices are given in pursuance of decisions taken, on the recommendation of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (see 1950, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 4 : 51—56, 57—59), by the Thirteenth International Congress of Zoology, Paris, July 1948 (see 1950, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 5 : 5—13,131). (a) Date of commencement by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of Voting on applications published in the " Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature " Notice is hereby given that normally the International Commission will start to vote upon applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature on the expiry of a period of six calendar months from the date of publication in the Bulletin of the applications in question. Any specialist who may desire to comment upon any of the applications published in the present Part (Vol. 13, Part 7) of the Bulletin is accordingly invited to do so in writing, and in duplicate, to the Secretary to the Commission, as quickly as possible and in any case, in sufficient time to enable the communication in question to reach the Secretariat of the Commission before the expiry of the six-month period referred to above. (b) Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers in certain cases Notice is hereby given that the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers is involved in applications published in the present Part of the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature in relation to the following cases :— (1) Labeceras Spath, 1925, designation of a type species for, in harmony with accustomed usage (Class Cephalopoda, Order Ammonoidea) (Z.N.(>S.) 1154); Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries 202 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Notices prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology (continued) (2) Calycoceras Hyatt, 1900, designation of a type species for, in harmony with accustomed usage (Class Cephalopoda, Order Ammonoidea) (Z.N.(S.) 1161); (3) Hoplitoplacenticeras, validation of, as from Paulcke, 1906, with Hoplites plasticus Paulcke, 1906, as type species (Class Cephalopoda, Order Ammonoidea) (Z.N.(S.) 1197); (4) Kotoceras Kobayashi, 1934 (Order Nautiloidea) and Damesites Matsumoto, 1942 (Order Ammonoidea), validation of (Class Cephalopoda) (Z.N.(S.) 1201). 2. Attention is also drawn to the proposed adoption of Declarations dealing with the following matters :— (a) Determination of gender to he attributed to generic names having the terminations " -ides ", " ites ", and " -oides " (Z.N.(S.) 951) ; (b) Clarification of procedure to be adopted when a specific name is published in an abbreviated form (Z.N.(S.) 1042); (c) Clarification of certain problems arising in connection with names published in works written in Latin (Z.N.(S.) 1223). 3. Comments received in sufficient time will be published in the Bulletin ; other comments, provided that they are received within the prescribed period of six calendar months from the date of publication of the present Part will be laid before the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature at the time of commencement of voting on the application concerned. 4. In accordance with the procedure agreed upon at the Session held by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in Paris in 1948 (see 1950, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 4 : 56), corresponding Notices have been sent to the serial publications Nature and Science. FRANCIS HEMMING, Secretary to the International Commission cm, Zoological Nomenclature. 28 Park Village East, Regent's Park, London, N.W.I, England. 28th June 1957. Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 203 PROPOSED ADOPTION OF A "DECLARATION" PRESCRIBING THE GENDER TO BE ATTRIBUTED FOR GENERIC NAMES HAVING THE TERMINATIONS "-IDES, -ITES, AND -OIDES" By FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. (Secretary to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) (Commission Reference : Z.N.(S.) 951) The purpose of the present application is to ask the International Commission to render a Declaration prescribing the gender to be attributed to generic names having the terminations " -ides " -ites " and " -oides 2. There is a very large number of generic names having one or other of these terminations and the question on the gender to be attributed to them is one that has already arisen on a number of occasions and is likely to continue to do so until the International Commission gives a definite Ruling on the subject. 3. Recently attention was drawn to this matter by Mr. Arthur N. Dusenbury, Jr. (Creole Petroleum Corporation, Jusepin, Monagas, Venezuela) in which he pointed out that in all the reports prepared by the palaeontologists of the Creole Petroleum Corporation generic names having the above terminations had been treated as being of the masculine gender. Mr. Dusenbury explained that in this matter he had been guided by the view expressed by Macfadyen (W.A.) and Kenny (E. J. Andre) in a paper entitled " On the Correct Writing in Form and Gender of the Names of the Foraminifera