BASTERIA, 70:131-132, 2006
The genus Inchoatia (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae) validated
and threemistakes corrected
E. Gittenberger
National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, P.O. Box 95X7, NL 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands;
& D.R. uit de Weerd
Academy ofNatural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, PA19103 Philadelphia, USA;
The genericname Inchoatia is validated by the designationof a type species and three mistakes
are corrected.
Key words: Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Clausiliidae, Alopiinae, Inchoatia, Protalbinaria, A.J.
Wagner Greece.
By omitting a type species designation, Gittenberger & Uit de Weerd (2006: 65) have introduced Inchoatia To validate the hereadd that incorrectly gen. nov. name, we Inchoatia inchoata (O. Boettger, 1889) has to be considered the type species.
The species that is now called Isabellaria parnassia (O. Boettger, 1888), was originally classified with Clausilia Draparnaud, 1805, so that contrary to Gittenberger & Uit de Weerd (2006: 65) the author has to be cited in parentheses.
Gittenberger & Uit de Weerd (2006: 61) referred to Carinigera (C.) buresi (A.J. Wagner, from 1927). However, according to Hesse (1933: 224), A.J. Wagner's paper dates 1928. As
1928. Hesse's is a consequence, 1927has to be replaced by statement supported by Polinski who indicated that this final (1929: 19), paper, i.e. Wagner's publication, was published only a few weeks before his death on June 12th, 1928.
Contra Nordsieck (2001: 20) we do not consider ProtalbinariaA. [J.] Wagner, 1923, a nomen nudum. A. [J.] Wagner (1923) published a description. The generic name was introduced withoutany included nominal species indeed, but before 1931, which implies that it is available (Art. 67.2.2.). The type species was designated correctly by Nordsieck
(2001: 20) fromamong the first subsequently and expressly includednominal species (by A. [J.] Wagner, 1924).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We thank Prof. Dr R.A. Bank for his constructive, critical comments, and valuable data. 132 BASTERIA, Vol. 70, No. 4-6, 2006
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