Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 267 OPINION 581 DETERMINATION OF THE GENERIC NA.AIES FOR THE FALLOW DEER OF EUROPE AND THE VIRGINIA DEER OF MIERICA (CLASS MAMMALIA) RULING. — (1) Under the plenary powers : (a) the generic name Dama Frisch, 1775 (a name pubUshed in a work rejected for nomenclatorial purposes by the ruling given in Opinion 258) is hereby validated ; (b) the nominal species Cervus dama Linnaeus, 1758, is hereby designated to be the type-species of the genus so named. (2) The foUoAving generic names are hereby placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified : (a) Da7mi Frisch, 1775 (gender : feminine), type-species, by designation under the plenary powers in (l)(b) above, Cervus dama Linnaeus 1758 (Name No. 1390) ; {h)Odocoileus Rafinesque, 1832 (gender: masculine), type-species, by monotypy, Odocoileus speleus Rafinesque, 1832 (Name No. 1391). (3) The foUo^^-ing specific names are hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specffied : (a) dama Linnaeus, 1758, as pubhshed in the binomen Cervus dama (type-species of Dama Frisch, 1775) (Name No. 1697) ; (b) speleus Rafinesque, 1832, as pubhshed in the binomen Odocoileus speleus (type-species oi Odocoileus Rafinesque, 1832) (Name No. 1698) ; (c) virginiana Zimmermann, 1780, as pubhshed m the binomen' Dama virginiana (Name No. 1699). (4) The foUo^v-ing generic names are hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and InvaUd Generic Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified : (a) Dama Zimmermann, 1777 (a name pubhshed in a work rejected for nomenclatorial purposes by the ruhng given in Opinion 257) (Name No. 1311); (b) The folIo^\ing junior homonyms of Dama Frisch, 1775 : (i) Dama Zimmermann, 1780 (Name No. 1312) ; (ii) Dama C. Hamilton Smith, 1827 (Name No. 1313) ; (iii) Dama J. E. Gray, 1850 (Name No. 1314) ; (c) Dama J. E. Gray, 1825 (a nomen nudum) (Name No. 1315). HISTORY OF THE CASE (Z.N.(S.) 96) The history of the case was described, and the arguments in support of difFermg views expressed by speciahsts set out, in the foUo^ning report (sUghtly modified historically) prepared by Mr. R. V. Melville, when Assistant Secretary, for the information of the Commission. . " The present case originated in April 1915 in a letter from Dr. Marcus W. Lyon (Howard Univ ersity, Washington, D.C.) to Dr. Stiles (then Secretary to Bull. zool. NomencL, Vol. 17, pts. 9-11. September 1960.
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