Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 145 OPINION 632 BEGIN A BAIRD & GIRARD, 1853 (REPTILIA) ; DESIGNATION OF A TYPE-SPECIES UNDER THE PLENARY POWERS RULING. — (1) Under the plenary powers : (a) the specific name leberis Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the binomen Coluber leberis, is hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy ; (b) all designations of type-species for the nominal genus Begina Baird & Girard, 1853, made prior to the present Ruling are hereby set aside, and the nominal species Coluber septemvittatus Say, 1825, is hereby designated to be the tjrpe-species of that genus. (2) The follo"sving generic names are hereby placed on the Official List of Greneric Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified : (a) Begina Baird & Girard, 1853 (gender : feminine), type-species, by designation under the plenary powers in (l)(b) above. Coluber sejptem-vittatu^ Say, 1825 (Name No. 1479) ; (b) Storeria Baird & Girard, 1853 (gender : feminine), type-species, by original designation, Tropidonotus dekayi Holbrook, 1842 (Name No. 1480). (3) The following specific names are hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology A\ith the Name Numbers specified : (a) septemvittatus Say, 1825, as pubUshed in the binomen Coluber septem-vittatus (type-species oi Begina Baird & Girard, 1853) (Name No. 1814) ; (b) dekayi Holbrook, 1842, as pubhshed in the binomen Tropidonotus dekayi (t}^e-species oi Storeria Baird & Girard, 1853) (Name No. 1815) ; (c) occipitomaculatus Storer, 1839, as pubhshed in the binomen Coluber occipitomacuhtus (Name No. 1816). (4) The specific name leberis Linnaeus, 1758, as pubhshed m the binomen Coluber leberis (as suppressed under the plenary powers in (l)(a) above) is hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology with the Name No. 699. (5) The following generic names are hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invahd Generic Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified : (a) Cora Bonaparte, 1854 (a junior homonym of Cora Selys, 1853) (Name No. 1554) ; (b) Cora Jan, 1863 (a junior homonym of Cora Selys, 1853) (Name No. 1555). HISTORY OF THE CASE (Z.N.(S.) 1443) The present case was submitted by Professor Hobart M. Smith and Dr. James E. Huheey on 31 October 1959. After sUght revision it was sent to the printer on 28 March 1960 and was pubUshed on 16 September 1960 in BuU. tool. Nomencl. 17 : 346-348. PubUc Notice of the possible use by the Bull. zool. Nomencl, Vol. 19, Part 3. May 1962.
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