Opinion 1736 Hylobates Entelloides I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1842 (Mammalia, Primates): specific name conserved

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OPINION 1736
Hylobates entelloidesI. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1842 (Mammalia,
Primates): specific name conserved
Ruling
(1 Undertheplenarypowersthefollowingspecificnamesareherebysuppressed
for the purposes ofthe Principle ofPriority but not for those ofthe Principle of
Homonymy:
(a) longimanaSchreber,[1774],aspublishedinthebinomenSimlalongiinana;
(b) albimana Vigors & Horsfield, 1828, as published in the binomen Simla
alblmana.
(2) ThefollowingnamesareherebyplacedontheOfficialIndexofRejectedand
InvalidSpecificNamesinZoology:
(a) longimanaSchreber,[1774],aspublishedinthebinomenSimlalongimanaand
(b) aaslbslumpapnraessVeidgoirns(1&)(a)Hoarbsfoiveel;d, 1828, as published in the binomen Simla
alblmanaandassuppressedin(l)(b)above.
HistoryofCase2770
AnapplicationfortheconservationofthespecificnameofHylobatesentelloides
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1842 was received from Miss Paulina D. Jenkins {The
Natural History Museum, London. U.K.) and Dr Colin P. Groves {Australian
NationalUniversity. Canberra.Australia)on24April1990.Aftercorrespondencethe
casewaspublishedinBZN49: 58-61 (March 1992). Noticeofthecasewassentto
appropriatejournals.
The specific name of Hylobates entelloides was placed on the Official List of
GenericNamesinOpinion 1219(September1982;BZN39: 168-171)butthenames
SimlalongimanaSchreber,[1774]andS.alblmanaVigors&Horsfield, 1828werenot
thenconsidered.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 December1992themembersoftheCommissionwereinvitedtovoteonthe
proposalspublishedinBZN49:60.AtthecloseofthevotingperiodonIMarch1993
thevoteswereasfol—lows:
Affirmativevotes 29: Bayer, Bock, Bouchet(in part). Cocks,Cogger,Corliss,
Dupuis, Hahn, Halvorsen, Heppell, Holthuis, Kabata, Kraus, Lehtinen, Macpher-
son, Mahnert, Martins de Souza, Minelli, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage, Schuster,
Starobogatov, Stys—,Thompson,Trjapitzin, Ueno,WiUink
Negativevotes none.
BouchetcommentedthatsuppressionofSimlaalbimanaVigors&Horsfield, 1828
wasjustified; however, S. longimanaSchreber, [1774]couldhavebeenstabihsedby
designatingtheneotypeofHomolarLinnaeus, 1771 asaneotypeforS. longimana
andCommissionactiononthisnamewouldthennothavebeennecessary.
Originalreferences
ThefollowingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonanOfficialIndexbythe
rulinggiveninthepresentOpinion:
BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature50(2)June1993 189
albimana,Simla,Vigors&Horsfield, 1828,ZoologicalJournal,4(13): 107-109.
longimana. Simia, Schreber, [1774], Die Sdugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mil
Beschreibungen,vol. 1,p.67,pi.3.