Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 58(4) December 2001 297 Case 2661 macropodinae Liem, 1963 (Osteichthyes, Perciformes): proposed emendation of spelling to macropodusinae, so removing the homonymy with macropodidae Gray, 1821 (Mammalia, Marsupialia) Maurice Kottelat Route de la Baroche 12, Case post ale 57, 2952 Cornol, Switzerland (address for correspondence); Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260 (e-mail:
[email protected]) Abstract. The family-group name macropodinae Liem, 1963 (Osteichthyes, Perci-formes, family osphronemidae, belontiidae or anabantidae) is a junior homonym of macropodidae Gray, 1821 (Mammalia, Marsupialia). Both names are in use and refer, respectively, to a group of anabantoid fishes (labyrinth fishes) from South, Southeast and East Asia and to the kangaroos and wallabies of Australia (including Tasmania) and New Guinea. The senior homonym is much older and has been considerably more widely used than the junior and it is proposed that the homonymy be removed by changing the spelling of the fish family-group name to macropodusinae by using the whole name of the type genus Macropodus La Cepede, 1801 as the grammatical stem, while leaving the mammalian name (based on Macropus Shaw & Nodder, 1790) unchanged. The names of Macropus and of its type species, M. giganteus Shaw & Nodder, 1790, were placed on Official Lists in Opinion 760 (January 1966). Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Mammalia; Marsupialia; Osteichthyes; Perciformes; MACROPODIDAE; OSPHRONEMIDAE; BELONTIIDAE; ANABANTIDAE; macropodusinae; Macropus; Macropodus; kangaroos; wallabies; anabantoid fishes; labyrinth fishes; Australia; Tasmania; New Guinea; Southeast Asia. 1. In 1790 Shaw & Nodder (text and pi. 33) described and illustrated the new genus and species Macropus giganteus, the grey kangaroo from Eastern Australia and Tasmania. The names of Macropus and of M. giganteus were placed on Official Lists in Opinion 760 (January 1966), the species being defined by the male neotype (catalogue number J. 10749 in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane) proposed in 1964 by Kirkpatrick & Woods (BZN 21: 249-250) and by Calaby & Ride (BZN 21: 254). 2. Gray (1821, p. 308) established the family-group macropidae based on Macropus, which was subsequently corrected by Owen (1839, pp. 16, 19) to macropodidae. The latter name has subsequently been universally used for the kangaroos, wallabies and wallaroos of Australia (including Tasmania) and New Guinea. The family currently includes some 10 genera and 50 species, and a number of fossil taxa are known from the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene. 3. La Cepede (1801, p. 416, pi. 16, fig. 1) established the name Macropodus for the paradise fish, with M. viridiauratus La Cepede, 1801 (p. 416) as the single included species. Species of Macropodus are now known from much of East. Asia (from
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