Name-bearing type
Under the
Effect on synonymy
Under the ICZN, two names of the same rank that have the same name-bearing type are
Family group
"Family-group" ranks include the
Genus group
"Genus group" ranks consist of the genus and subgenus.[12] The name-bearing type for a genus-group taxon is the type species,[3] which must be one of the species included when that taxon ("genus" hereafter for brevity) was first formally named[13] or, when no species were included when the genus was named, one of the first species that were subsequently included in it.[14] A genus described after 1930 (1999 for ichnotaxa) must have its type species fixed when first named;[15] in taxa described earlier without such an explicit designation, the type species can be fixed subsequently.[16] For example, the skink genus Euprepis contained nine species when first described by Wagler in 1830, but no type species was designated. In 2002, Mausfeld and others used the name for a mainly African group of skinks, designating Lacerta punctata Linnaeus, 1758, as the type species (currently Lygosoma punctatum), but in 2003, Bauer noted that Loveridge had already fixed the type species of Euprepis in 1957 as Scincus agilis (currently Mabuya agilis), invalidating the later fixation by Mausfeld and others. Accordingly, Euprepis is now a subjective synonym of Mabuya and the mostly African group Mausfeld and others incorrectly called Euprepis is known as Trachylepis.[17]
Species group
Official "species-group" ranks consist of just the
The name-bearing type is usually an individual animal in a museum collection; for example, the name-bearing type (in this case, lectotype) of the skink species currently known as
See also
Notes
- References to "Code" refer to the International Code for Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1999).
- ^ Code, Article 61.1
- ^ a b Code, Article 63
- ^ a b Code, Article 67.1
- ^ a b c d Code, Article 72.1.2
- ^ Mausfeld and Vrcibradic, 2002, pp. 293–294; Miralles et al., 2009, p. 62
- ^ Code, Glossary, "objective synonym"
- ^ Voss et al., 2001, p. 56
- ^ Code, Glossary, "subjective synonym"; Article 61.3.1
- ^ Voss et al., 2001, pp. 56–58
- ^ Code, Article 35.1
- ^ Musser and Carleton, 2005, p. 1187; Code, Article 29.2
- ^ Code, Article 42.1
- ^ Code, Article 67.2
- ^ Code, Article 67.2.2
- ^ Code, Article 67.4
- ^ Code, Article 69.1
- ^ Bauer, 2003, pp. 4–5
- ^ a b Miralles et al., 2009, fig. 7, p. 62
- ^ Code, Article 45.1
- ^ Code, Article 72.10, Recommendations 72D–F
- ^ Code, Article 73.1
- ^ Code, Article 73.2
- ^ Code, Article 74.1
- ^ Code, Article 73.2.2
- ^ Code, Article 75
- ^ Voss et al., 2001, pp. 57–58; Code, Article 75.1
- ^ Holthuis, 1996, p. 188; Code, Article 72.5.1
- ^ Code, Article 72.5
- ^ Code, Articles 72.5.1, 73.4.1
Literature cited
- Bauer, A.M. 2003. "On the identity of Lacerta punctata (Linnaeus 1758), the type species of the genus Euprepis (Wagler 1830), and the generic assignment of Afro-Malagasy skinks." African Journal of Herpetology 52:1–7.
- Groves, C.P. 2005. "Order Primates." Pp. 111–184 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
- Holthuis, L.B. 1996. "Original watercolours donated by Cornelius Sittardus to Conrad Gesner, and published by Gesner in his (1558–1670) works on aquatic animals". Zoologische Mededelingen 70:169–196.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1999. International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, 4th ed. London: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. ISBN 0-85301-006-4
- Mausfeld, P. and Vrcibradic, D. 2002. On the nomenclature of the skink (Mabuya) endemic to the western Atlantic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil (subscription only). Journal of Herpetology 36(2):292–295.
- Miralles, A., Chaparro, J.C. and Harvey, M.B. 2009. "Three rare and enigmatic South American skinks" (first page only). Zootaxa 2012:47–68.
- Musser, G.G. and Carleton, M.D. 2005. "Superfamily Muroidea." Pp. 894–1531 in Wilson, D.E. and Reeder, D.M. (eds.). "Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference, 3rd ed." Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0
- Voss, R.S., Lunde, D.P. and Simmons, N.B. 2001. "The mammals of Paracou, French Guiana: a Neotropical lowland rainforest fauna. Part 2. Nonvolant species." Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 263:1–236.