Taxacom: A nomenclatural puzzle - genus Galea Meyen,
1833 (mammal), preoccupied or not?
Tony Rees
tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 12:31:05 CST 2022
2022
With a little more searching, I see that others have also
treated Meuschen's Museum Geversianum as a non-binomial work, see e.g. A.C.
Brown (1979). The energy cost and efficiency of burrowing in the
sandy-beach whelk Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn) (Nassariidae). J. exp. mar.
Biol. Ecol., 40(2), 149?154. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(79)90041-8 (footnote on
first page), so I am happy to accept that as the preferred position. With
the name in question, we then have the usages by Cuvier and by Smith (both
1817) in echinoderms, both of which pre-date that of Meyen, 1833 (or 1832?)
in Mammalia. As pointed out already, Cuvier's name is in synonymy and thus
unavailable, while Smith's name is technically available but could be a
candidate for declaration as a nomen oblitum. In the absence of any formal
statement of the latter, I am inclined to label it an "unused senior
homonym" for now in my database, the mammal name Galea Meyen as a "junior
homonym in current use" with an appropriate note, and its published
replacement name Galecavia Kretzoi & Kretzoi, 2000 as a "superfluous
replacement name" per current usage, again with an explanatory note.
Does this fit with what appears to be the current situation? If it does,
thanks to all for their input...
Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 00:43, Thomas Pape via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
wrote:
> As Francisco pointed out, a work is consistently binominal if it is
> applying a nomenclatural system in which species are denoted by a
> combination of two names.
> Meuschen (1787) may in a few places have what look like polynominal
> generic names -- like GENVS LI. VMBILICI MARINI FORMES (p. 484) -- but he
> uses a one-letter abbreviation when combining them with specific names.
>
> In a few places Meuschen (1787) is using a combination of an abbreviated
> generic name followed by two names:
> Page 478: B. Cucullus planus
> Page 480: A. Bardana maxim?
> Page 485: C. Ovum Marinum
> Page 496: M. Pileus Neptuni
> Page 508: M. Rotundo stellata
> I suppose the instances of two specific names could be interpreted as
> falling within binominal nomenclature because to the extent that they both
> refer descriptively to the generic name, but only the specific name (or
> names) is (are) put in italics, which perhaps is an indication that
> Meuschen did not apply a binominal system where species are denoted by a
> combination of two names.
> I still think Meuschen (1787) is to be interpreted as not consistently
> binominal.
>
> /Thomas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> On Behalf Of Laurent Raty
> via Taxacom
> Sent: 1. december 2022 10:40
> To: taxacom at lists.ku.edu
> Subject: Taxacom: [KU SUSPECT SPAM] Re: A nomenclatural puzzle - genus
> Galea Meyen, 1833 (mammal), preoccupied or not?
>
> Meuschen did not use fully consistently uninominal names for his genera.
> In particular, his "GENUS LVIII. DISCI TRANSFIXI." (p. 490) is the plural
> of "Discus transfixus", meaning "the Pierced Disks". (All of Meuschen's
> genus names occur only in the plural in headers, and reduced to an initial
> letter in species names.) Pretending that the plural ending of the
> adjective in a nominal group like "Disci transfixi" can be "corrected" to
> the singular, while leaving the plural noun (which this adjective agrees
> with) untouched -- thereby producing an improbable "Discitransfixus" --,
> is... well, odd.
>
>
> An analysis of the ornithological part of Meuschen's work (pp. 38-65) was
> published in 1926 by Gregory Mathews (who did not discuss Meuschen's
> application of binominal nomenclature, and may indeed not have had a very
> close look at the rest of the work) -
>
> Mathews GM. 1926. Another new book, which necessitates changes in
> nomenclature. Austral Avian Record, 5: 81-100.
>
> Mathews' opinions on some of Meuschen's names were since (partly)
> followed. One of Meuschen's species names, Rallus cinereus Meuschen 1787
> (p. 40), was used to displace Gracula carunculata Gmelin 1788, and is now
> Creatophora cinerea (Meuschen 1787). Another name, Tanagra atra Meuschen
> 1787 (p. 52), was used to displace a junior primary homonym, Tanagra atra
> Gmelin 1789, which gave way to Tanagra melanopis Latham 1790, now
> Schistochlamys melanopis (Latham 1790). However, despite Mathews'
> suggestion that it had to, Trochilus smaragdinus Meuschen 1787 (p. 48) did
> not displace Trochilus smaragdinus Gould 1846, which remains used as
> Aglaiocercus kingii smaragdinus (Gould 1846).
>
>
> Cheers, Laurent -
>
>
>
> On 12/1/22 02:09, Francisco Welter-Schultes via Taxacom wrote:
> > Dear Thomas,
> > From where exactly did you extract the impression that Meuschen (1787)
> > did not consistently apply the Principle of Binominal Nomenclature?
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Francisco
> >
> > Am 30.11.2022 um 23:23 schrieb Thomas Pape via Taxacom:
> >> From looking at the work by Meuschen (1787), I get the impression
> >> that he did not consistently apply the Principle of Binominal
> >> Nomenclature, and that means that any names in that work are outside
> >> of zoological nomenclature (i.e., they are unavailable).
> >>
> >> /Thomas
> >>
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