Opinion 1751 Procellaria Gigantea Gmelin, [1789] (currently Macronectes Giganteus; Aves, Procellariiformes): usage of the specific name conserved by the designation of a neotype

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OPINION 1751
Procellariagigantea Gmelin, |1789| (currently Macronectesgiganteus;
Aves, Procellariiformes): usage ofthe specific name conserved by the
designation ofa neotype
Ruling
(1) Undertheplenarypowersspecimenno. 1911 340intheCatalogueGeneralof
theLaboratoiredeZoologie:MammiferesetOiseaux,MuseumNationald'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris, is hereby designated as the neotype for the nominal species
ProcellariagiganteaGmelm,[1789].
(2) Thename MacronectesRichmond, 1905(gender:masculine), typespeciesby
monotypy ofthe replaced nominal genus Ossifraga Hombron & Jacquinot, 1844,
ProcellariagiganteaGmelin,[1789],isherebyplacedontheOfficialListofGeneric
NamesinZoology.
(3) ThefollowingnamesareherebyplacedontheOfficialListofSpecificNames
inZoology;
(a) gigantea Gmelin, [1789], as published in the binomen Procellaria gigantea
(specific name ofthe type species of Macronectes Richmond, 1905) and as
definedbytheneotypedesignatedin(1)above;
(b) halliMathews, 1912,aspublishedinthetrinomenMacronectesgiganteushalli
and as defined by the lectotype (specimen no. 91.6.16.6 in thecollectionsat
Tring of the Natural History Museum, London) designated by Bourne &
Warham(1966).
HistoryofCase2784
An application fortheconservation ofusageofthe specificnameofProcellaria
giganteaGmelin,[1789]bythedesignationofaneotypewasreceivedfromDrJ.-F.
Voisin {Museum Nationald'Histoire Naturelle. Paris. France) and 16 others on 6
August1990.AftercorrespondencethecasewaspublishedinBZN49:140-143(June
1992).Noticeofthecasewassenttoappropriatejournals.
ItwasnotedonthevotingpaperthattheSecretariathadreceivedacopyofaletter
fromDrG.F. Mees(Busselton. WesternAustralia)tooneoftheauthors(ProfW.J.
Bock).DrMeessupportedthetaxonomicaimsoftheproposalsbuthesuggestedthat
an application was not necessarybecause ofcommentsby Mathews (1912) on the
geographical ranges of Macronectes giganteus (Gmelin, [1789]) and M. halli
Mathews, 1912.However,Bourne&Warham(1966)andtheapplicationhadshown
the need for typification of giganteus and halli. It was also noted that the 50
additionalreferencesheldbytheCommissionSecretariatdemonstratingusageofthe
namesgiganteusandhalli(para. 5oftheapplication)wereallpublishednoearlier
than 1970.
DecisionoftheCommission
On 1 March 1993 the members ofthe Commission were invited to vote on the
proposalspublishedinBZN49: 142.Atthecloseofthevotingperiodon1June1993
thevoteswereasfollows:
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Affirmative votes 24: Bayer, Bock, Bouchet, Cocks, Cogger, Corliss, Dupuis,
Hahn, Halvorsen, Heppell, Holthuis, Lehtinen, Macpherson, Mahnert, Martinsde
Souza,Minelli,Nie—lsen,Nye,Savage,Schuster,Stys,Thompson,Trjapitzin,Wilhnk
Negativevotes none.
NovoteswerereceivedfromKabata, Kraus, StarobogatovandUeno.
Ridewasonleaveofabsence.
Lehtinen commented that the worldwide authorship of the application had
persuadedhiminfavour.
Originalreferences
ThefollowingaretheoriginalreferencestothenamesplacedonOfficialListsbytheruling
giveninthepresentOpinion:
giganlea.Procellaria,Gmelin,[1789], CaroliaLinneSystemaNaturae,Ed. 13,vol. 1,part2
(Aves),p. 563.
halli,Macroneclesgiganteus,Mathews, 1912, ThebirdsofAustralia,vol.2,part2,p. 187.
MacronectesRichmond, 1905,ProceedingsoftheBiologicalSocietyofWashington,18:76.
ThefollowingisthereferenceforthedesignationofthelectotypeofMacronectesgiganteus
halliMathews, 1912:
Bourne,W.R.P.&Warham,J. 1966.Ardea,54(1-2):64.