bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 219 REQUEST FOR A RULING ON THE QUESTION OF THE TYPE SPECIES OF " ANCILLA " LAMARCK 1799 (CLAsi GASTROPODA) liy KATHERINK V. W. PALMER {PaleoiUolof/iad lie.smrc/i In.stHution. Ithica. N.Y.. U.JS.A.) (Commission's reference Z.N.(S.)170) AndUa was proposed l.y Lanuirck. J 799, Men,. >Soc. Hist. nat. Pan, 1 • 7u \:'^t^'^s^ "' ''' '""^^ " "'^''''''^ • • • ""^''"^ --^^■^' h^n.I-^" 'n '''""•-•■'• '^' "-^^--'-^ (^'--""• '-^'t^'rencv as 'that of Utmaick). llu. spocios is stiJI ivyaixlcd as valid. Does tiot the type species of Ancilla Lamarck. 1799 then become Vol,, la ainpla Gmelm. 1792. by mo.iotypy I ?clI^^ JI^r^^n^^J[^.f ^^ "ANCILLA" LAMARCK, 1799 (CLASS GASTROPODA), A GENUS ESTABLISHED WITH NO CITED NOMINAL SPECIES l>y KHA^CIS HEMMING. ('.M.(;.. C.H.E. {Sra-rlan, In Ihe Jnleniatiouul Conmnssion on Zoological Nomenclalan) (Commission's reference Z.N.(S.)170) WJieu m 1937 Mrs Katherme Palmer submitted her application to the ternatioiml Coninussion on Zoological Nomenclature for a ruling on the c]uest.on of the type species of the genus AncUla Lamarck, 1799 there eLted no express provision m the Mgles on the procedure to be followed n7eS nunn.g the type s,,ecies of a genus, to which species ha.l been referred bv tl .■ original author of the generic name but no.u' of those .sj>ecies ha o i" th-occasion been cited un<ler a binominal name. The only g .ide tl'n a aillw
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