Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 50(3) September 1993 219 Case 2868 Hydromantes Gistel, 1848 (Amphibia, Caudata): proposed designation of Salamandra genei Temminck & Schlegel, 1838 as the type species Hobart M. Smith Department of Environmental. Population and Organismic Biologv. University of Colorado. Boulder. Colorado 80309-0334. U.S.A. David B. Wake Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. University of California. Berkeley, California 94720. U.S.A. ' Abstract. The purpose of this appphcation is to conserve the usage of the name Hydromantes Gistel, 1848 for a group of five species of salamanders (family PLETHODONTIDAE Gray, 1850) from the mountain areas of north-central and western Italy and southern France; Sardinia; and the mountains of northern and central California, U.S.A. Hydromantes is a replacement name which, with one exception (in 1984), has consistently been used during the past 70 years. It is proposed that Salamandra genei Temminck & Schlegel, 1838 be designated the type species, in accordance with understanding and usage. 1. Gistel (1848, p. xi) proposed the replacement name Hydromantes for Geotriton. He did not cite either the authorship or date of the latter name, noting only 'Unter den Lurchen, besonders den Batrachiern, ist zu andern ... Geotriton in Hydromantes ...'. The name Hydromantes has been used by many authors during the past 70 years and has been attributed consistently to Gistel (see paras. 5 and 7 below). 2. The first publication of the name Geotriton was by Bonaparte in 1831 (p. 151), included in the family salamandridae Gray, 1825; since there was neither a description nor included species the name was a nomen nudum. The name was made available by Bonaparte ([1832], pp. [243]-[244], pi. [83]), who adopted it for a subgenus of Triton Laurenti, 1768 (the latter was subsequently replaced, as a junior homonym, by Triturus Rafinesque, 1815). Bonaparte included in Geotriton the single nominal species Salamandra exigua Laurenti, 1768 (p. 41, pi. 3, fig. 4), which is thus the type species by monotypy. Subsequently, without referring to his [1832] publi-cation, Bonaparte ([1837], pp. [255]-[256], pi. [84] used the name Geotriton for 'Geotriton fuscus', a misidentification of Salamandra fusca Laurenti, 1768 (p. 42; a subjective synonym of S. aira Laurenti, 1768, p. 42, pi. 1, fig. 2; see, for example, Mertens & Wermuth, 1960, pp. 19, 35 and paras. 4-6 below). The dates of publication ([1832]-[1841]) of the parts of Bonaparte's work were set out by Salvador! (1888). Tschudi (1838, pp. 59, 93, 94, pi, 2, fig. 3) adopted the name Geotriton and attributed it to Bonaparte. Tschudi did not cite a date for the name but his text makes it clear that Bonaparte ([1837]) was the source. Tschudi's publication was included in the Memoires de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel in 1840 but was issued as a separate in 1838; Mertens (1967, p. v) accepted Stejneger's
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