Opinion 1652 Griffithides Portlock, 1843 (Trilobita): Griffithides longiceps Portlock, 1843 confirmed as the type species, and Bollandia Reed, 1943 (Trilobita): conserved

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OPINION 1652
Griffithides Portlock, 1843(Trilobita): Griffithideslongiceps Portlock,
1843confirmed asthetypespecies, and Bollandia Reed, 1943(Trilobita):
conserved
Ruling
(1) Undertheplenarypowersalldesignationsoftypespeciesforthenominalgenus
Griffithides Portlock, 1843 prior to that by Vogdes (1890) of Griffithides longiceps
Portlock, 1843areherebysetaside.
(2) ThefollowingnamesareherebyplacedontheOfficialListofGenericNamesin
Zoology:
(a) Bollandia Reed, 1943 (gender: feminine), type species by original designation
AsaphusglobicepsPhillips, 1836;
(b) Griffithides Portlock, 1843 (gender: masculine), type species by subsequent
designation by Vogdes (1890) Griffithides longiceps Portlock, 1843, as ruled
in(1)above.
(3) Thefollowingnamesareherebyplacedon theOfficial ListofSpecificNamesin
Zoology:
(a) globicepsPhillips, 1836,aspublishedinthebinomenAsaphusglobiceps(specific
nameofthetypespecieso^BollandiaReed. 1943);
(b) longiceps Portlock, 1843, as published in the binomen Griffithides longiceps
(specificnameofthetypespeciesoiGriffithidesPortlock, 1843).
HistoryofCase2762
An application for the confirmation ofGriffithides longiceps Portlock, 1843 as the
typespecieso{GriffithidesPortlock, 1843wasreceivedfromDrGerhardHahn(Institut
fiirGeologicundPaldontologie,Marburg. Germany)on26February 1990.Aftercorre-
spondencethecasewaspublishedin BZN47: 114-116(June 1990). Noticeofthecase
wassenttoappropriatejournals.
Comments in support from Sir James Stubblefield [Ealing, London, U.K.) and
ProfH.B. Whittington[UniversityofCambridge, Cambridge, U.K.)werepubHshedin
BZN 47: 216 (September 1990). Further comments in support from Dr B.A. Engel
[University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia), Dr. C. Brauckmann [Wuppertal
Fuhlrott-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany) and Mr S.F. Morris [The Natural History
Museum, London, U.K.) were published in BZN 47: 293 (December 1990). A further
comment in support was received from Drs N.J. Riley & A.W.A. Rushton [British
GeologicalSurvey Keyworth, U.K.).
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DecisionoftheCommission
On 6 March 1991 the members of the Commission were invited to vote on the
proposalspublished in BZN47: 115. Atthecloseofthevotingperiod on 6June 1991
thevoteswereasfollo—ws:
Affirmative votes 26: Bayer, Bock, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Dupuis, Hahn,
Halvorsen, Heppell. Holthuis, Kabata, Kraus. Lehtinen, Macpherson, Mahnert,
Martins de Souza. Minelli, Mroczkowski, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage, Schuster,
Thompson,Ueno,Willink
264 BulletinofZoologicalNomenclature48(3)September1991
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Negativevotes none.
NovoteswerereceivedfromStarobogatovandTrjapitzin.
Originalreferences
Thefollowingare theoriginal referencesto thenamesplaced onOfficial Listsbytheruling
giveninthepresentOpinion:
BollandiaReed, 1943,AnnalsandMagazineofNaturalHistory,(11)10:62.
globiceps,Asaphus,Phillips, 1836,IllustrationsofthegeologyofYorkshire:or,adescriptionofthe
strataandorganic remains:accompaniedbyageologicalmap,sections,and diagrams,and
figuresofthefossils,part2(TheMountainLimestoneDistrict),p.240.
GriffithidesPortlock, 1843, Reporton thegeologyofthecountyofLondonderry,andofpartsof
TyroneandFermanagh,p.310.
longiceps,Grijfithides,Portlock, 1843,ReportonthegeologyofthecountyofLondonderry,andof
partsofTyroneandFermanagh,p.310.
ThefollowingisthereferenceforthedesignationofGriffithideslongicepsPortlock,1843asthe
typespeciesofthenominalgenusGriffithidesPortlock, 1843:
Vogdes,A.W. 1890.BulletinoftheUnitedStatesGeologicalSurvey,63: 116.