84 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature OPINION 625 STROPHALOSIA KING, 1844 (BRACHIOPODA) ; DESIGNATION OF A TYPE-SPECIES UNDER THE PLENARY POWERS RULING. — (1) Under the plenary powers : (a) the folio whig names are hereby suppressed for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy : (i) the generic name Leptaenalosia de Verneuil, 1845 ; (ii) the specific name spiniferus Howse, 1848, as pubMshed in the binomen Productus spiniferus ; (iii) the specific name morrisianus Howse, 1848, as pubhshed m the binomen Productus morrisianus ; (b) all designations of type-species for the nominal genus Strophalosia King, 1844, made prior to the present Ruling are hereby set aside, and the nominal species Strophalosia gerardi Kuig, 1846, is hereby designated to be the type-species of that genus ; (c) the emendation to morrisiana of the specific name morrisiania King, 1848, as pubUshed in the binomen Strophalosia morrisiania, is hereby vahdated. (2) The following generic names are hereby placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified : (a) Strophalosia King, 1844 (gender : feminine), type-species, by designation under the plenary powers in (l)(b) above, Strophalosia gerardi King, 1846 (Name No. 1463) ; (b) Productella Hall, 1867 (gender : femuune), type-species, by designation by Oehlert, 1887, Productus subaculeatus Murchison, 1840 (Name No. 1464) ; (c) Krotovia Fredericks, 1928 (gender : feminine), type-species, by original designation, Productus spinulosus J. Sowerby, 1814 (Name No. 1465) ; (d) Orthothrix Geuiitz, 1847 (gender : feminine), t3^e-species, by designation by Dall, 1877, Orthis excavata Geuiitz, 1842 (Name No. 1466). (3) The foUowuig specific names are hereby placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology A^ith the Name Numbers specified : (a) gerardi Kuig, 1846, as pubhshed in the bmomen Strophalosia gerardi (type-species oi Strophalosia Kmg, 1844) (Name No. 1789) ; (b) subaculeatus Murchison, 1840, as pubhshed in the binomen Productus subaculeatus (type-species of Prodiictella Hall, 1867) (Name No. 1790) ; (c) spinulosus J. Sowerby, 1814, as published in the binomen Productus spinulosus (type-species of Krotovia Fredericks. 1928) (Name No. 1791); (d) excavata Geinitz, 1842, as pubhshed in the binomen Orthis excavata (type-species of Orthothrix Geinitz, 1847) (Name No. 1792) ; (e) morrisiana (emend, of morrisiania) King, 1848, as pubhshed in the binomen Strophalsia morrisiana (Name No. 1793) ; BvU. zool. Nomend., Vol. 19, Part 2. March 1962. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 86 (f) lewisianus de Koninck, 1847, as published in the binomen Productus lewisianus (Name No. 1794) ; (g) goldfussi Miinster, 1839, as pubUshed in the binomen Spondylus goldfussi (Name No. 1795). (4) The generic name Leptaenalosia de Verneuil, 1845, as suppressed under the plenary powers in (l)(a)(i) above, is hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology \\ith the Name No. 1538. (5) The following specific names are hereby placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Specific Names in Zoology with the Name Numbers specified : (a) spiniferus Murchison & de Verneuil, 1845, as pubUshed in the binomen Productus spiniferus (a nomen nudum) (Name No. 682) ; (b) morrisianus Murcliison & de Verneuil, 1845, as pubUshed in the binomen Productus morrisianus (a nomen nudum) (Name No. 683) ; (c) spiniferus Howse, 1848, as pubUshed in the binomen Productus spiniferus (as suppressed under the plenary powers in (l)(a)(u) above) (Name No. 684) ; (d) morrisiamis Howse, 1848, as pubUshed in the binomen Productus morrisianus (as suppressed under the plenary powers in (l)(a)(iii) above) (Name No. 685) ; (e) mxyrrisiania King, 1848, as pubUshed in the binomen Strophalosia morrisiania (ruled under the plenary powers in (l)(c) above to be an invaUd original speUing for morrisiana) (Name No. 686). (6) The family-group name productelllnae Schuchert & LeVene, 1929 (type-genus Producfella Hall, 1867) is hereby placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology with the Name No. 317. HISTORY OF THE CASE (Z.N.(S.) 784) The present case was submitted to the office of the Commission in September 1953 by Dr. W. G. H. Maxwell. The information given by Dr. MaxweU was, however, defective and the application was later completed by Dr. Helen M. Muir-Wood, with Dr. MaxweU's approval. The appUcation was sent to the printer on 4 March 1960 and was published on 16 September 1960 in Bull. zool. Nomencl. 17 : 316-318. PubUc Notice of the possible use by the Commission of its plenary powers in the present case was given in the same part of the Bulletin as well as to the other prescribed serial pubUcations {Bull. zool. Nomencl. 4 : 51-56) and to three palaeontological serials. An objection was received from Dr. E. Raymond Hall. DECISION OF THE COMMISSION On 1 May 1961 the Members of the Commission were invited to vote under the Three-Month Rule on Voting Paper (61)14 either for or against the proposals set out in Bull. zool. Nomencl. 17 : 320-321. At the close of the Voting Period on 1 August 1961 the state of the voting was as foUows : Affirmative Votes — twenty-two (22), received in the foUowing order : Dymond, Mayr, Holthuis, Hering, Hemming, Stoll, Boschma, Riley, Obruchev, 86 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Bonnet, Alvarado, Brinck, Miller, Jaczewski, Vokes, do Amaral, Key, Uchida, Prantl, Lemche, Mertens, Ktihnelt. Negative Votes — one (1) : Tortonese. On Leave of Absence — one (1) : Bradley. Voting papers not returned — one (1) : Evans. Commissioner Poll returned a late affirmative vote. Original References The follow-ing are the original references for names placed on Official Lists and Indexes by the Ruling given in the present Opinion : excavata, Orthis, Geinitz, 1842, N. Jahrb. Min. Geol. Pal. Abh. 1842 : 578, pi. 10, figs. 12, 13 gerardi, Strophalosia, King, 1846, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 18 : 93 goldfussi, Spondylus, Miinster, 1839, Beitr. zur Petrefacten-Kiinde 1 : 2, pi. 4, figs.3a, b Krotovia Fredericks, 1928, Bull. Com. gdol. Leningrad 46(7) (1919) : 779, 790 Leptaenalosia de Verneuil, 1845, in Murchison, de Verneuil, Keyserling, Geologie de la Russie d'Europe 2(3), Paleont. : 281 lewisianus, Productus, de Koninck, 1847, Mem. Soc. ray. Liege 4 : 262 morrisiana, Strophalosis, King, 1848, Catalogue of Organic Remains of the Permian Rocks of Northumberland and Durham : 9 morrisiania, Strophalosia, King, 1848, an invalid original spelling for morrisiana q.v. morrisianus, Productus, Howse, 1848, Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field Clvb 1(3) : 257 morrisianus, Productus, Murchison & de Verneuil, 1845, Giologie de la Russie d'Etirope 1 : 223 Orthothrix Geinitz, 1847, Bull. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou 20(2) : 84 Productella HaU, 1867, 2Qth Rept. N.Y. State Cabinet, Appendix 1 : 153, 250 PRODUCTELLiNAE Schuchert & LeVene, 1929, Fossilium Catalogus 1(42), Brach. : 17 spiniferus, Productus, Howse, 1848, Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field Club 1(3) : 257 spiniferus, Productus, Murchison & de Verneuil, 1845, Oeologie de la Russie d'Europe 1 : 223 spinulosus, Productus, J. Sowerby, 1814, Min. Conch. 1 : 155 Strophalosia King, 1844, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 14 : 313 subaculeatus, Productus, Murchison, 1840, Bull. Soc. geol. France 11 : 255 The following are the original references for the designation of type-species for two genera concerned in the present RuUng : For Productella HaU, 1867 : Oehlert, 1887, Appendice Brachiopodes in P. Fischer, Manuel de Conchyliologie . . .fasc. 11 : 1279 For Orthothrix Geinitz, 1847 : Call, 1877, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 8 : 53 CERTIFICATE We certify that the votes cast on Voting Paper (61)14 were cast as set out above, that the proposal set out in that Voting Paper has been duly adopted Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 87 under the plenary powers, and that the decision so taken, being the decision of the International Commission, is truly recorded in the present Opinion No. 625. ^ S" ^- »II^E^^ W. E. CHINA ^^'^^^i^^ry Assistant Secretary IntermUional Commission on Zoological Nomenclature Londoji 23 October 1961 COMJIENTS ON THE PROPOSED PRESERVATION OF THE NAME CERASTES FOR THE SAND VIPERS. Z.N.(S.) 724 (see volume 18, pages 170-171 and 315) By Hobart M. Smith (Professor of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.) The generic name Aspis has been used occasionally in recent years by specialists aware of Its claim to acceptance in lieu of Cerastes for the sand vipers. However, a review of the entries m the Zoological Record smce 1936, when Stejneger proposed replacement of Cerastes by Aspis, reveals that at least three-quarters of the references to this genus continued to fall under the name Cerastes. This fact coupled with the abundance of pre-1936 literature under the sole neading ot Cera^ Y r^u "^ vf'^''/c«''"'o*o' '''^^' ^'^"""P''' ^^P""^'«'« ■■ 105) cannot be used. Stejnege; hvilntfJ,"'\ '■'''^\^^'- ^V "^^^ ^?''" ^" suggesting that the type-species of ^.^i^ is, nL."wH "*Tf°y' ^m^ cleopatrae Laurenti, 1768. The reference to the pre-Linnean Code r Art ^fit^ru .r""' ''^ t'^^«y"ony«iy ofcleopatrae does not satisfy the provisions of the Thu. Vhp H« *^^;-^' ! '' "°* "^^"*'*-^ ^"* s'lnilarity with the newly established genus name. Pror Avl, F«!/ J°° f /.^'P.^.'P^T' °f ^*'P''* intestinalis Laurenti, 1768, by Barbour (1914. this des^S"'? • ^^t f •■ ^-'' '' *° ^" '^^^'^^^ «« t^« fi'-^* ^^lid tjT)e-designation By name Srorrl^'M«,TH,^?'".%^ !f'^'°'^ subjective sjTionj-m of the well-kSo^vn generic Sv EknTdL 0^n^V^*'i""f • '/''^•/'"'^2 : plate 86), for the Indian coral-snakes of the wo^ H h; % *• ^•.^*' °*^^'' ^*°^' *'^^ ^^'■''''^* °*™^ available for the genus of sand vipers would be Gonyechts Fitzinger (1843, Systema Reptilium : 28). ^ ofthenImPnc^f"nr!ft'^^°^r ^^'''^' ^7 ^t"^* application of the Code, would be the result fore iSifiin r.1. ""f ''°'^' '"^"t'oned above, would lead to the greatest confusion. There- Com^rsl^n to l^t!""? '°'°' "^^"^^ ^y ^^'- ^- ^^^""^ ^^ «t^°^gly recommend the International 1768^ hiir-^ plenary powers m order to suppress the generic name Aspis Laurenti. Barbo,r iQU^^.Vt!'':""''" Laurent.. 1768, aa type-species, by subsequent designation by nmTv?rH h!^\ i V^'P"'^.' T^ *^^ ^^ °f P"«"ty ''"t °ot of the L^w of Homonymy, as proposed by Schmidt, Pope and Loveridge in their first application. Bull. zool. Nomencl., Vol. 19, Part 2. March 1962. ~~