Taxacom: A nomenclatural puzzle - genus Galea Meyen,
1833 (mammal), preoccupied or not?
Tony Rees
tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 15:06:29 CST 2022
2022
Correction, Galea Smith is mentioned in Neave as part of the entry under
Cuvier, 1817 (same year), although it is unclear to me if either of these
are validly published and might also pre-date Meyen's name.
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022, 7:25 am Neal Evenhuis, <neale at bishopmuseum.org> wrote:
> Meuschen has two works that have been rejected by the ICZN for
> nomenclatural purposes - one (Museum Gronovium) in 1778; and the other,
> 1781, Index to Gronovius?s Zoophylacium Gronoviorum. If Galea appeared in
> either of those works it would be unavailable. But if not, it seems that it
> could be an available name in the 1787 work.
>
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> -Neal
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> Neal L. Evenhuis
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> On Stardate 11/30/22, 9:39 AM, "Taxacom" <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu>
> wrote:
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> Dear Taxacomers,
>
> The genus Galea Meyen, 1833 (Caviidae) is presently treated as an accepted
> genus, see e.g. Wilson & Reeder, 1995 (
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> and elsewhere. On the other hand Kretzoi & Kretzoi, 2000 considered that it
> was preoccupied (by Galea Meuschen 1787, an echinoderm) and proposed the
> replacement name Galecavia, a name that never seems to have been taken up.
> The statement regarding the preoccupation of other, later instances of
> Galea by Meuschen's (1787) name has been repeated elsewhere as well, e.g.
> in the dinoflagellate literature, regarding Galea Kristan, 1957.
>
> Galea Meuschen 1787 does not appear in the Echinoid Directory hosted at the
> NHM, London, but Galea Smith, 1817 does (
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> ,
> a name not listed in Nomenclator Zoologicus, which has the following
> entries, sorted chronologically:
>
> name author publication category comments
> Galea Meuschen 1787 Mus. Gever., 486. Echin
> Galea Cuvier 1817 R?gne anim., 4, 18; Smith 1817, ``Obs. Echini'' in Strat.
> Syst. Org. Foss.; Quenstedt 1874, Petref. Dtschl., (1) 3, 585. Echin (ex
> Klein)
> Galea Meyen 1833 Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. Carol., 16 (2), 597. Mamm
> Galea Moerch 1852 Cat. Yoldi, 1, 110. Moll (ex Klein)
> Galea Kristan 1957 Jb. geol. Bundesanst. Wien 100: 291. Prot (Rhiz.)
> Galea Maier 1959 Neues Jb. Geol. Pal?ont. Abh. 107 (3): 305. Prot (Mast.)
>
> I have a suspicion that Galea Meuschen may occur in a work declared
> unavailable by the ICZN, but am not sure... but do not know whether Galea
> Meyen, 1833 is really preoccupied or not; if it is, then Kretzoi &
> Kretzoi's 2000 replacement name Galecavia should apply, except that no
> recent works seem to use it...
>
> Any thoughts/assistance welcome!
>
> Regards - Tony
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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