Opinion 1671 Strophomena de Blainville, 1824 (Brachiopoda): Leptaena planumbona Hall, 1847 designated as the type species

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OPINION 1671
Strophomenade Blainville, 1824(Brachiopoda): Leptaenaplanumbona
Hall, 1847designated asthetypespecies
Ruling
(1 Undertheplenarypowers:
(a) all previousdesignationsoftypespeciesforthenominalgenusStrophomenade
Blainville* 1824 are hereby set aside and Leptaena planumbona Hall, 1847 is
designatedasthetypespecies;
(b) the specific name rugosa de Blainville, 1824, as published in the binomen
Strophomena rugosa, is hereby suppressed for the purposes ofthe Principle of
PrioritybutnotforthoseofthePrincipleofHomonymy.
(2) The name Strophomena de Blainville, 1824 (gender: feminine), type species by
designation in (l)(a) above Leptaenaplanumbona Hall, 1847, is hereby placed on the
Official ListofGenericNamesinZoology.
(3) The name planumbona Hall, 1847, as published in the binomen Leptaena
planumbona (specific name ofthe type species ofStrophomena de Blainville, 1824) is
herebyplacedontheOfficialListofSpecificNamesinZoology.
(4) Thenamerugosade Blainville, 1824,aspublishedin thebinomenStrophomena
rugosa and as suppressed in (l)(b) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index of
RejectedandInvalidSpecificNamesinZoology.
HistoryofCase2747
An application for the designation ofLeptaenaplanumbona Hall, 1847 as the type
species ofStrophomenade Blainville, 1824was received from Dr L.R.M. Cocks (The
NaturalHistoryMuseum,London, U.K.)on 10November 1989.Aftercorrespondence
thecase was published in BZN47: 274-276 (December 1990). Notice ofthecase was
senttoappropriatejournals. CommentsinsupportfromDrA.W.A. Rushton(British
Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, U.K.) and from Sir Alwyn Williams
(TheUniversity,Glasgow, U.K.)werepublishedinBZN48: 54(March 1991).Afurther
commentinsupportfromDrC.H.C. Brunton{TheNaturalHistoryMuseum,London,
U.K.)wasnotedonthevotingpaper.
In the application the names Strophomena and rugosa were attributed to de
Blainville's Manuel de Malacologie of 1825 (see BZN 47: 274, para. 3) but it
subsequentlybecameapparent(seebelow)thattheyhadpreviouslybeenpublishedin
1824.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 September 1991 the membersofthe Commission were invited to vote on the
proposals published in BZN 47: 275-276. At the close of the voting period on 1
December 1991 thev—oteswereasfollows:
Affirmative votes 26: Bayer, Bock, Cocks, Corliss, Dupuis, Hahn, Halvorsen,
Heppell, Holthuis, Kabata, Kraus. Lehtinen, Macpherson, Mahnert, Martins de
Souza, Minelli, Nielsen, Nye, Ride, Savage, Schuster, Starobogatov, Thompson,
Trjapitzin,Ueno,Willink
—
Negativevotes none.
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NovotewasreceivedfromCogger.
Heppell commented: 'The genera (including the new genera) included by de
Blainville in his Manuel de Malacologie (1825) were also published by him in the
alphabeticallyarrangedsequenceofthesecondeditionoftheDictionnairedesSciences
Naturelles.ThispredatestheManuelatleastasfarasvolume32(November 1824),and
so thegenericname Strophomenaand the specificname rugosa should bedated from
their first publication on p. 302 ofthat volume, and not from 1825 as given in the
application'.
Originalreferences
ThefollowingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonOfficialListsandanOfficial
IndexbytherulinggiveninthepresentOpinion:
planumbona,Leptaena,Hall, 1847,NaturalHistoryofNew York,p. 112.
rugosa, Strophomena, de Blainville, 1824, Dictionnairedes Sciences Naturelles, Ed. 2, vol. 32,
p.302.
StrophomenadeBlainville, 1824,DictionnairedesSciencesNaturelles,Ed.2,vol.32,p.302.