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The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Vol 12, Part 3 VOLUME 12. Part 3 26if/i June, 1956 pp. 65—96 ; 1 pi. 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 Zoo¬ logical Nomenclature of voting on applications published in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature .. .. .. .. .. 65 Notice of the possible use by the International Commission on Zoo¬ logical Nomenclature of its Plenary Powers in certain cases .. 65 (continued outside 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 Publication Office, 41, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7 1956 Price Nineteen Shillings IAll 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 President: Dr. Karl Jordan (British Museum (Natural History), Zoological Museum, Tring, Herts, England) President: 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 Natuurlijke 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. Heiming Lemche (Universitetets Zoologiske 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 Hering (Zoologisches Museum der Ilumboldt-Universitat 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.T., U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) (President) Professor Harold E. Vokes (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.) (12th August 1953) Professor B61a Hanko (Mezogazdasagi Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary) (12th August 1953) Dr. Norman R. Stoll (Rockefeller 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. Holthuis (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 Institut der Universitat, 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 " G. Doria," Genova, Italy) (16th December 1954) Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGICAL NOMENCLATURE Volume 12. Part 3 (pp. 65—96) 26th June 1956 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 7 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 Nomen¬ clature 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. 12, Part 3) of the Bulletin is accordingly invited to do so in writing 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 eases Notice is hereby given that the possible use by the International Com¬ mission 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 under-mentioned names :— (1) Lepidurus Leach, 1819, validation of; Triops Schrank, 1803, determina¬ tion of gender of, and designation of a type species for, in harmony with accustomed usage (Class Crustacea, Order Phyllopoda) (Z.N.(S.) 1020); (2) apodinae Hartert, 1897, validation of as the family-group name for the. Swift (Class Aves) (Z.N.(S.) 1020); Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries 66 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Notices prescribed by the International Congress of Zoology (continued) (3) volvulus (emend, of volvulus) (Filaria), validation of, as from Leuckart, [1892] (Class Nematoda) (Z.N.(S.) 877); (4) Asaphus Brongniart, 1822, validation of, and designation for of a type species in harmony with accustomed usage; comigerus Schlotheim, 1820 (Trilobites), suppression of (Class Trilobita) (Z.N.(S.) 636]. 2. 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. 3. 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 on Zoological Nomenclature 28 Park Village East, Regent's Park, London, N.W.I, England. 26th June 1956. Original from and digitized by National University of Singapore Libraries Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 67 PROPOSED USE OF THE PLENARY POWERS (a) TO VALIDATE THE GENERIC NAME " LEPIDURUS " LEACH, 1819, AND TO DESIGNATE A TYPE SPECIES FOR, AND TO DETERMINE THE GENDER OF, " TRIOPS " SCHRANK, 1803 (CLASS CRUSTACEA, ORDER PHYLLOPODA) AND (b) TO VALIDATE THE FAMILY NAME "APODIDAE " HARTERT, 1897 (CLASS AVES) By L. B. HOLTHUIS (Rijhsmuseum van Natuurlijke Historic, Leiden, The Netherlands) and FRANCIS HEMMING, C.M.G., C.B.E. {London) (Commission Reference : Z.N.(S.) 1020) Introductory The controversy existing amongst carcinologists as to the correct names that have to be applied to the two Phyllopod genera that by different authors have been indicated as Apos, Apus, Binoculus, Lepidurus or Triops, has caused a considerable instability in the nomenclature of this group. Furthermore this question not only concerns carcinological, but also involves ornithological nomenclature. Therefore a final decision on this problem by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is highly desirable. 2. The following are the references to Crustacean genera dealt with in this proposal: Apus Schaeffer, 1756, Krebsart. Kiefenfuss : 131 (type species, by selection by E. Desmarest (1858, Chenu's Ency. Hist. nat. (Crust.): 59): Apus cancri- formis Bosc [1801-1802] Hist. nat. Crust. 2 : 244) (gender : masculine) Binoculus Geoffroy, 1764, Hist. abrg. Ins. Env. Paris 2 : 658 (type species, by selection by Fowler (1912, Ann. Bep. New Jersey State Mus. 1911 : 466) : Monoculus apus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1 : 635) (gender : masculine) Binoculus Miiller (O.F.), 1776, Zool. dan. Prodr. : 200 (type species, by selection by Fowler (1912, Ann. Bep. New Jersey State Mus. 1911 : 466): Binoculus palustris Miiller (O.F.), 1776, Zool. dan. Prodr.: 200 (a junior objective synonym of Monoculus apus Linnaeus, 1758) (gender : masculine) Bull. zool. Nomencl. Vol. 12, Part 3.
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