Geoff Read wrote:
The ICZN have issued a negative ruling on Dodecaceria concharum.
OPINION 2019 (Case 2899). Dodecaceria concharum Orsted, 1843 and
Heterocirrus fimbriatus Verrill, 1879 (currently D. fimbriata) (Annelida,
Polychaeta): conservation of usage of the names by the designation of a
neotype for D. concharum not approved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
60: 66-67. (2003).
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Jim Blake wrote:
This is indeed good news!! It is gratifying to see that the ICZN is
able to reject proposals that are poorly conceived.
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This reminded me of the case of Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) (etc.) in
the seventies, in which the ICZN was somewhat less critical. This species
was also "deliberately misidentified" and a neotype was chosen from
Swedish material. The type locality had to be removed from the Netherlands
(Belgia in Latin off those days) because the species in the new sense does
not occur here.
Dr. Jacob van der Land
National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis
2300 RA Leiden - Netherlands
e-mail: land at naturalis.nnm.nl
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