DOI: http://doi.org/10.18941/venus.74.3-4_89 Short Notes ©The Malacological Society of Japan89 Short Notes The Valid Names for Some Land Snail Taxa in the Ryukyu Islands Yuichi Kameda Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan;
[email protected] The scientific name and/or identification of an of Ganesella Blanford, 1863. These taxa were organism are often changed by systematic revisions subsequently moved to the genus Satsuma A. based on new approaches such as molecular Adams, 1868 (Kuroda & Habe, 1949; Minato, 1988). phylogeny, but the valid names and authorships Two replacement names have since been proposed can be changed by other reasons: e.g., rediscovery for this taxon – Ganesella erabuana Kuroda, 1958 of an earlier description, misidentification and the and Luchuhadra erabuensis Kuroda, 1963. On the incorrect use of manuscript names. Among the other hand, Minato (1982), who revised this taxon, Japanese land snails, Paludinella yamamotonis recognized Satsuma erabuensis Minato, 1978 as the Minato, 1973 (= Cavernacmella yamamotonis) valid substitute name, and this name has generally and Diplommatina takashimae Tada, 1989 are been used (e.g., Azuma, 1982; Minato, 1988; recent examples of accidental description by using Kameda, & Kato, 2008; but see Tomiyama et al., manuscript names (Fukuda & Ponder, 2003; H. 2003). Citing personal communication with Dr. T. Ishikawa, pers. comm.). Older literature is more Habe, Minato (1982) considered that Kuroda (1958) likely to be involved with problems of authorship, did not intend to establish a new replacement name, with a recent example being the change in the and that Kuroda’s replacement name (1963) is also authorships of three Ogasawarana species from unavailable because G.