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Volume 20. Part 4. 12thJuly, 1963 pp. 241-320. THE BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE The Official Organ of THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Contents Page Notices prescribed, by the International Congress of Zoology : Date of commencement by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of voting on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 241 Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of its plenary powers in certain cases 241 {continued inside bach 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, 14, Belgrave Square, London, S.W.I 1963 Price Three Pounds (All rights reserved) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE A. The Officers of the Commission President-. Professor James Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12 August, 1953) Vice-President: Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (12 August 1953) Acting Secretary : Dr. W. E. China (British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W.I) B. The Members of the Commission (Arranged in order of election or of most recent re-election) Senhor Dr. Afranio do Amaral (S. Paulo, Brazil) (12 August 1953) (Vice-President) Professor J. Chester Bradley (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) (President) Professor Harold E. Vokes (University of Tulane, Department of Geology, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) Dr. Norman R. Stoll (Rockefeller Institute, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.) (12 August 1953) Dr. L. B. Holthuis (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijlce Historic, Leiden, The Netherlands) (12 August 1953) Dr. K. H. L. Key (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia) (15 October 1954) Dr. Alden H. Miller (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.) (29 October 1954) Doc. Dr. Ferdinand Prantl (Narodni Museum v Praze, Prague, Czechoslovakia) (30 October 1954) Professor Dr. Wilhelm Khhnelt (Zoologisches Institut der Universitdt, Vienna, Austria) (6 November 1954) Professor Ernst Mayr (Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) (4 December 1954) Professor Enrico Tortonese (Museo di Storia Naturale "G. Doria ", Genova, Italy) (16 December 1954) Dr. Per. Brinck (Lunds Universitets, Zoologiska Institution, Lund, Sweden) (19 May 1958) Dr. Max Poll (Musee Royal de VAfrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium) (12 July 1958) Professor H. Boschma (Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historic, Leiden, The Netherlands) (23 July 1958) Mr. Francis Hemming (London, England) (23 July 1958) Dr. Henning Lemche (Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark) (23 July 1958) Professor Pierre Bonnet (Universite de Toulouse, France) (23 July 1958) Mr. Norman Denbigh Riley (British Museum (Natural History), London) (23 July 1958) Professor Dr. Tadeusz Jaczewski (Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland) (23 July 1958) Professor Dr. Robert Mertens (Natur-Museum u. Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg, Frankfurt a.M., Germany) (23 July 1958) Professor Dr. Erich Martin Hering (Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany) (23 July 1958) Dr. D. V. Obruchev (Palaeontological Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow B-71, U.S.S.R.) (5 November 1958) Professor Tohru Dchida (Department of Zoology, Hokkaido University, Japan) (24 March 1959) Professor Dr. Rafael Alvarado (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain) (31 May 1960) Dr. Gwilym Owen Evans (British Museum (Natural History), London) (31 May 1960) Dr. E. G. Mttnroe (Canada Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, Ottawa, Canada) (9 June 1961) Dr. N. S. Borchsenitts (Institute of Zoology, Academy of Sciences, Leningrad R-164, U.S.S.R.) (28 September 1961) Dr. W. E. China (British Museum (Natural History), London) (21 May 1962) (Acting Secretary) Prof. E. Binder (Museum d'Histoirt Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland) (21 May 1962) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Volume 20, Part 4 (pp. 241-320) 12th July, 1963 NOTICES (a) Date of Commencement of Voting.—In normal circumstances the Commission starts to vote on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature six months after the publication of each application. Any zoologist who wishes to comment on any of the applications in the present part is invited to send his contribution, in duplicate, to the Secretariat of the Commission as quickly as possible, and in any case in time to reach the Secretariat before the close of the six-month period. (b) Possible use of the Plenary Powers.—The possible use by the Commission of its plenary powers is involved in the following applications published in the present part of the Bulletin :— (1) Suppression of Atherina japonica Houttuyn, 1782 (Pisces). Z.N.(S.) 569. (2) Suppression of Melissodes fonscolombei Romand, 1841 (Insecta, Hvmen- optera). Z.N.(S.) 862. (3) Validation of Tanagra Linnaeus, 1766, Tanagra episcopus Linnaeus, 1766, and designation of a type-species for tanagridae Bonaparte, 1838 ; or validation of Thraupis Boie, 1826 and Tanagra episcopus Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves). Z.N.(S.) 1182. (4) Designation of a type-species for Leptrota Melichar, 1912 (Insecta, Hemiptera). Z.N.(S.) 1530. (5) Validation of Tipula paludosa Meigen, 1830 (Insecta, Diptera). Z.N.(S.) 896. (6) Validation of Boriomyia Banks, 1905 (Insecta, Neuroptera). Z.N.(S.) 1531. (7) Suppression of Conus clavus, Conus minimus, Conus rusticus and Conus senator, all of Linnaeus, 1758 (Gastropoda). Z.N.(S.) 1558. (8) Designation of a type-species for Calephelis Grote & Robinson, 1869 (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Z.N.(S.) 1563. c/o British Museum (Natural History), W. E. CHINA Cromwell Road, Acting Secretary London, S.W.7, .England. International Commission on 1 May 1963. Zoological Nomenclature Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries 242 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED SUPPRESSION OE ZORILLA I. GEOEEROY, 1826. (Z.N.(S.) 758) (see volume 19, pages 284-289) By L. B. Holthuis {Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historic, Leiden, The Netherlands) Though I am not a mammalogist the case of Zorilla vs. Ictonyx interests me very much and I venture therefore to give some comments. In my opinion the arguments used by both parties in this case involve various points which are not pertinent here and only confuse the issue. (1) When describing his new genus Zorilla, I. Geoffroy St. Hilaire referred to only one nominal species : " Mustela zorilla et Viverra zorilla des auteurs systematiques ". This species is Viverra zorilla Gmelin, 1788, Linnaeus Syst. Nat. (ed. 13) 1 : 88. Mustela zorilla Cuvier (1798, Tabl. elem. Hist. nat. Anim. : 116) is not a new name but just a new combination of Gmelin's name as is clear from Cuvier's reference to " Viverra zorilla L.". The type-species of the genus ZoriUa I. Geoffroy, 1826, consequently is Viverra zorilla Gmelin, 1788. Gmelin gives as the locality of his species " America australi" and refers to various previous authors (Schreber, Buffon, and Gumilla). It seems to me that what should be done is to select a leetotype for Gmelin's species from among the specimens discussed by the authors to which he refers. Only if this is done and the identity of Gmelin's species is established and thereby also that of Geoffroy's genus Zorilla, have discussions on the status of the latter any sense. I would suggest therefore that the mammologists concerned first decide about the identity of Gmelin's species, at least if no leetotype for that has already been selected, which, judging by the text of the application, is not the case. (2) As Mustela zorilla as used by Cuvier (1798) is not a new name but nothing but Viverra zorilla Gmelin transferred to the genus Mustela, it is incorrect to have the name zorilla Cuvier, 1798 suppressed under the plenary powers, as no such name exists. (3) A third problem which I should like to comment upon is the status of E. Geoffroy's (1803) ' Catalogue des Mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle ', which according to Dr. Morrison-Scott is not published. After examina¬ tion of the copy of this publication in the Leiden Museum and after consulting the Code and especially Art. 8, I cannot see why this book should be considered as not published. It is reproduced in ink on paper by regular printing, it is issued for the purpose of scientific, public, and permanent record, and it was distributed free. In our copy the following citation is written on the fly leaf: " Le catalogue des Mammiferes du Museum national d'histoire naturelle, redige. par Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, imprime en 1803 n'a jamais ete mis en vente; mais il a 6te distribue, tant a l'etranger qu'en Erance, k un assez grand nombre de zoologistes, et il est cite dans tous les traites de mammalogie. Cf. Catalogue methodique de la collection des Mammiferes de la collection des oiseaux et des collections annexes par M. Isidore G. St. Hilaire et M. M. Elorent Prevost et Pucheran Paris 1851. Introduction V, et note 2." As the book has been printed, properly distributed and cited in all or practically all important mammological treatises, as is confirmed by our Curator of Mammals, Mr. A. M. Husson, I do not see any reason why this book should be unavailable nomenclatorially or even why it should be suppressed. Mr. Husson believes that a suppression of this work will cause an undesirably great number of changes in currently adopted names in mammology. Bull. zool. Nomencl., Vol. 20, Part 4. July, 1963. Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 243 By W. E. China (Acting Secretary, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature) In deference to Dr.
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