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Taxacom: A nomenclatural puzzle - genus Galea Meyen, 1833 (mammal), preoccupied or not?

Tony Rees tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 15:47:02 CST 2022


OK, have found Smith's name here (if you can get the link to work via the
Taxacom version...):

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Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 08:42, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I have found  Meuschen's original name as first published here:
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>
> The work is entitled "Museum Geversianum, sive, Index rerum naturalium :
> continens instructissimam copiam pretiosissimorum omnis generis ex tribus
> regnis naturae objectorum : quam dum in vivis erat magna diligentia
> multaque cura comparavit Abrahamus Gevers" and does not seem to be one of
> those treated as an unavailable work.
>
> Smith's later name (same taxon or different?) is apparently published on
> p. 21 of  "Smith, W. 1817. *Stratigraphical system of organized fossils
> with reference to the specimens of the original geological collection in
> the British Museum*. London 118 pp." , however I have not traced an
> original of this (in BHL at least...)
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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>
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 08:11, Thomas Pape via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> >>> unclear to me if either of these are validly published and might also
>> pre-date Meyen's name
>> Links to relevant publications would be very helpful.
>>
>> Thomas Pape
>>
>>
>> DIR +45 2875 1106
>> tpape at snm.ku.dk
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Taxacom <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> On Behalf Of Tony Rees via
>> Taxacom
>> Sent: 30. november 2022 22:06
>> To: Neal Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org>
>> Cc: taxacom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Taxacom: A nomenclatural puzzle - genus Galea Meyen, 1833
>> (mammal), preoccupied or not?
>>
>> 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.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -Neal
>> >
>> > Neal L. Evenhuis
>> >
>> > Senior Curator of Entomology
>> >
>> > *Bishop Museum *
>> >
>> > Honolulu, Hawaii  96817-2704, USA
>> >
>> > Ph: 1-808-848-4138
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Stardate 11/30/22, 9:39 AM, "Taxacom"
>> > <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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>> .
>> > departments.bucknell.edu%2Fbiology%2Fresources%2Fmsw3%2Fbrowse.asp%3Fi
>> > d%3D13400189&amp;data%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7C0a8477f6e2c0456458
>> > 7808dad316ce98%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C6380543921
>> > 56176427%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL
>> > CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=u5BZX%2BXRlQHU
>> > yHPMoEwOdSz3GqWrXfbOs%2FbPVI48Ih0%3D&amp;reserved=0)
>> > 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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>> > nhm.ac.uk%2Four-science%2Fdata%2Fechinoid-directory%2Ftaxa%2Ftaxon.jsp
>> > %3Fid%3D2404&amp;data%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7C0a8477f6e2c0456458
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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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