Opinion 1640 Ranguna Bott, 1966 and Larnaudia Bott, 1966 (Crustacea, Decapoda): Potamon rangoonensis Rathbun, 1904 and Thelphusa Larnaudii A. Milne Edwards, 1869 confirmed as the respective type species

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OPINION 1640
Ranguna Bott, 1966 and Larnaudia Bott, 1966(Crustacea, Decapoda):
Potamonrangoonemis Rathbun, 1904 and ThelphusalarnaudiiA. Milne
Edwards, 1869confirmed asthe respective typespecies
Ruling
(1) PotamonrangoonensisRathbun, 1904isherebyconfirmedasthetypespeciesof
thenominalgenusRangunaBott, 1966.
(2) Thelphusa larnaudii A. Milne Edwards, 1869 is hereby confirmed as the type
speciesofthenominalgenusLarnaudiaBott, 1966.
(3) ThefollowingnamesareherebyplacedontheOfficial ListofGenericNamesin
Zoology:
(a) RangunaBott, 1966(gender:feminine),typespeciesbyoriginaldesignationand
confirmedin(1)above, PotamonrangoonensisRathbun, 1904;
(b) Larnaudia Bott, 1966 (gender: feminine), type species by monotypy and
confirmedin(2)above, ThelphusalarnaudiiA. MilneEdwards, 1869.
(4) ThefollowingnamesareherebyplacedontheOfficialListofSpecificNamesin
Zoology:
(a) rangoonensisRathbun, 1904,aspublishedinthebinomenPotamonrangoonensis
andasconfirmedin(1)above(specificnameofthetypespecieso^RangunaBott,
1966);
(b) larnaudii A. Milne Edwards, 1869, as published in the binomen Thelphusa
larnaudii and as confirmed in (2) above (specific name ofthe type species of
LarnaudiaBon, 1966).
HistoryofCase2624
An application to designate Thelphusa longipes A. Milne Edwards, 1869 and
ThelphusalarnaudiiA. MilneEdwards. 1869astherespectivetypespeciesofRanguna
Bott. 1966and Larnaudia Bott, 1966was received from Drs M. Tiirkay{Forschungs-
institut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany) and P. Naiyanetr (Chulalongkorn Univer-
sity, Bangkok, Thailand) on 8 September 1987. After correspondence the case was
publishedin BZN46: 101-103(June 1989).Noticeofthecasewassent toappropriate
journals.
CommentsinsupportoftheproposalsforLarnaudiaBott, 1966,butopposingthose
for Ranguna Bott, 1966. from Dr Peter K.L. Ng (Department ofZoology, National
University ofSingapore) and from Prof L.B. Holthuis (Nationaal Natuurhistorisch
Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands) were published in BZN 47: 45^7 (March 1990).
Copiesofthesecommentsweresenttobothauthorsoftheapplicationbutnoreplywas
received.
Theproposalsinpara. 5onBZN46: 102.(1)tosetasideallpreviousdesignationsof
type species for the nominal genus Ranguna Bott. 1966 and to designate Thelphusa
longipes A. Milne Edwards, 1869 as the type species, and (2) to confirm Thelphusa
larnaudii A. Milne Edwards, 1869 as the type species of^Larnaudia Bott, 1966. were
presented separatelyforvoting. Theplenarypowerswereneeded forproposal(1)but
notforproposal(2).
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DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 December 1990themembersoftheCommissionwereinvitedtovoteonthetwo
proposals.Atthecloseofthevot—ingperiodon 1 March 1991 thevoteswereasfollows:
Proposal 1. Affi—rmativevotes 5: Bock,Corliss, Kabata, Mahnert,Trjapitzin
Negative votes 22: Bayer, Cocks, Cogger, Dupuis, Hahn, Halvorsen, Heppell,
Holthuis, Kraus, Lehtinen, Macpherson, Martins de Souza, Minelli, Mroczkowski,
Nye, Ride,Savage,Schuster,Starobogatov,Thompson,UenoandWillink.
NovotewasreceivedfromNie—lsen.
Proposal 2. Affirmativevotes 28: Bayer, Bock, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Dupuis,
Hahn, Halvorsen, Heppell, Holthuis, Kabata, Kraus, Lehtinen, Macpherson,
Mahnert, Martins de Souza, MinelU, Mroczkowski, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage,
Schuster,Starobog—atov,Thompson,Trjapitzin, UenoandWillink
Negativevotes none.
SinceProposal 1,whichinvolvedsettingasidePotamonrangoonensisRathbun, 1904
as thetypespecies ofRangima Bott, 1966, wasnotaccepted bytheCommission, that
nominal species remains the type species by original designation. Bott (1966) mis-
quoted the spelling of P. rangoonensis Rathbun as P. rangoonense, and this was
repeatedinthepublishedapplicationandcomments.
Originalreferences
Thefollowingare theoriginal referencesto thenamesplaced on Official Listsbytheruling
giveninthepresentOpinion:
LarnaudiaBott, 1966,Senckenbergianabiologica,47(6):490.
larnaudii,Thelphusa,A.MilneEdwards,IS69,NouvellesarchivesduMuseumd'HistoireNaturelle
deParis,5: 166.
rangoonensis, Potamon, Rathbun, 1904, NouvellesarcfiivesduMuseum d'Histoire Naturellede
Paris,(4)6:279.
RangunaBott, 1966,Senckenbergianabiologica,47(6):481.