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In USA, contact the Copyright Clearance Center, 27 Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970. Congress Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970. The dangers of inadequate literature search to nomenclatural stability: the case of the nomina Hyla quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 and Hyla prasina Burmeister, 1856 (Amphibia: Anura) Henrique C. COSTA Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Antônio Carlos 6627, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, 31270-90, MG (Brazil) Diego J. SANTANA Laboratório de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, 79070-900, Campo Grande, MS (Brazil) Submitted on 10 April 2018 | Accepted on 20 July 2018 | Published on 14 November 2018 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:757B0245-ADE3-41CD-B7F7-923126A6664F Costa H. C. & Santana D. J. 2018. — The dangers of inadequate literature search to nomenclatural stability: the case of the nomina Hyla quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 and Hyla prasina Burmeister, 1856 (Amphibia: Anura). Zoosystema 40 (22): 493499. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a22. http://zoosystema.com/40/22 ABSTRACT KEY WORDS Ohler & Dubois (2018) argued that Article 23.9 of the Code cannot be used to reject the name Hyla Amphibia, quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 in favor of its junior synonym Hyla prasina Burmeister, 1856. Anura, However, their statement was based on an insufficient literature search erroneously suggesting that nomenclatural act, Principle of Priority, H. prasina had been rarely used. We discuss this issue and give recommendations on searches in synonymy. electronic bibliographical databases. RÉSUMÉ Les dangers d’une recherche bibliographique insuffisante pour la stabilité nomenclaturale : le cas des noms Hyla quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 et Hyla prasina Burmeister, 1856 (Amphibia: Anura). Ohler & Dubois (2018) ont affirmé que l’article 23.9 du Code ne peut pas être utilisé pour rejeter le MOTS CLÉS nom Hyla quoyi Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 en faveur de son synonyme plus récent Hyla prasina Amphibia, Burmeister, 1856. Cependant, leur déclaration était basée sur une recherche insuffisante dans la litté- Anura, rature suggérant à tort que H. prasina n’avait été que rarement utilisé. Nous discutons ce problème acte nomenclatural, principe de priorité, et donnons des recommandations sur les recherches dans les bases de données bibliographiques synonymie. électroniques. ZOOSYSTEMA • 2018 • 40 (22) © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. www.zoosystema.com 493 Costa H. C. & Santana D. J. 2018 INTRODUCTION prasina”, “Hypsiboas prasinus” or “Boana prasina” in the title of the article resulted in seven references, of which five can be Caramaschi & Niemeyer (2010) stated that the name Hyla considered a published work by the Code (Kwet & Miranda quoyi Bory de Saint Vincent, 1828 should be considered 2001; Kiss et al. 2009; Madelaire et al. 2012, 2013; Delgado & a nomen oblitum under Article 23.9 of the International Haddad 2015). Nevertheless, 244 references were recovered Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) (hereafter when the terms were searched in any part of the text. Some “the Code”), and its “well established” junior synonym Hyla results were duplicates; many are unpublished works (dis- prasina Burmeister, 1856 should be a nomen protectum. In sertations and theses); a few present the selected term only a paper recently published in this journal, Ohler & Dubois in the title of a cited reference; but not less than 70 in fact (2018) argued that the nomenclatural act of reversal of are published works that considered Hyla prasina/Hypsiboas precedence proposed by Caramaschi & Niemeyer (2010) prasinus/Boana prasina as a valid name (see Discussion). was invalid because they had failed to meet the criteria of At JSTOR, there are 15 published works that cite one of the Code. the names as valid (Heyer et al. 1988; Bertoluci 1998; Eter- For the nomenclatural act proposing the reversal of prece- ovick et al. 2002, 2005; Garcia et al. 2003, 2007; Jim 2004; dence between Hyla quoyi and H. prasina to be properly Gomes et al. 2004; Haddad & Prado 2005; Wiens et al. 2005; implemented, it would be necessary to explicitly cite at D’Heursel & Haddad 2007; Antunes et al. 2008; Lehr et al. least 25 published works by at least 10 authors in the last 2010; Madelaire et al. 2012, 2013) – the last two cite Hypsi- 50 years within a span of not less than 10 years (Article boas prasinus in the title. Another record cites H. prasinus only 23.9.1.2). In their search, Ohler & Dubois (2018) found in the title of a cited reference; and three do not constitute only 11 references, suggesting that Hyla prasina was not published works. a widely used name. For this reason, they concluded that Searching in BioOne recovered three articles with the selected H. prasina cannot be considered a nomen protectum, and terms in the title (Madelaire et al. 2012, 2013; Delgado & that the name Hyla quoyi should be used. In this work we Haddad 2015) and 13 with the terms in the text: 11 that cite provide arguments contrary to Ohler & Dubois (2018) and Hyla prasina/Hypsiboas prasinus as valid (Eterovick et al. 2002; highlight how incomplete literature reviews that call for the Garcia et al. 2003, 2007; Haddad & Prado 2005; Faivovich Principle of Priority or its reversal can have negative impacts et al. 2005; D’Heursel & Haddad 2007; Antunes et al. 2008; on nomenclatural stability. Madelaire et al. 2012, 2013; McAllister et al. 2013; Delgado & Haddad 2015), one journal table of contents (not a published work), and Ohler & Dubois (2018). MATERIAL AND METHODS In Science Direct the search recovered four references with the terms in the text: one table of contents (not a published We made a search in online databases on 6 April 2018 for work), and three articles (Faivovich et al. 2004; Kiss et al. references between 1968 and 2018 (the last 50 years) with 2009; Moretti et al. 2017) – the second one with H. prasi- the terms “Hyla prasina” OR “Hypsiboas prasinus” OR nus in the title. In Scopus and the Web of Science we found “Boana prasina”, and a search for references after 1899 with four published works (Kiss et al. 2009; Madelaire et al. 2012, the terms “Hyla quoyi” OR “Hypsiboas quoyi” OR “Boana 2013; Delgado & Haddad 2015) and one meeting abstract quoyi”. Searches were made in two steps: one with the selected citing H. prasinus in the title. If selected terms can be in any terms restricted to the title of the work; another with the part of the text, the search at Scopus recovered 26 published terms in any part of the text. Databases used were Google works: 14 citing one of the species names as valid (Kiss et al. Scholar (https://scholar.google.com.br), BioOne (http:// 2009; Caramaschi & Niemeyer 2010; Madelaire et al. 2012, www.bioone.org/), JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org), Science 2013; McAllister et al. 2013; Toledo et al. 2013; Campião Direct (https://www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (https:// et al. 2014; Delgado & Haddad 2015; An & Waldman 2016; www.scopus.com), Web of Science (http://webofknowledge. Greenspan et al. 2016; Pinheiro et al. 2016; Kindermann et al. com), and Wiley Online Library (https://onlinelibrary.wiley. 2017; Köhler et al. 2017; Moretti et al. 2017) and 12 citing com). Additionally, we searched on all issues of the tradi- H. prasinus only in the title of a cited reference.