Taxacom: A nomenclatural puzzle - genus Galea Meyen,
1833 (mammal), preoccupied or not?
Tony Rees
tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 15:55:20 CST 2022
2022
Meyen's name (year given variously as 1832 and 1833), i.e. the mammal not
the echinoderm, is accessible here:
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 08:47, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, have found Smith's name here (if you can get the link to work via the
> Taxacom version...):
>
>
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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:
>> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.biodiversitylibrary.org%2Fitem%2F229495%23page%2F496%2Fmode%2F1up&data%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C5ce3b3d1bebb42d99cc608dad31d9c31%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638054421539368291%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HpT3I2F2oY2oefgWPBO8wstgS1%2FOyCRmLy3oDXRer9I%3D&reserved=0
>>
>> 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&data%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7C0a8477f6e2c0456458
>>> > 7808dad316ce98%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C6380543921
>>> > 56176427%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL
>>> > CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=u5BZX%2BXRlQHU
>>> > yHPMoEwOdSz3GqWrXfbOs%2FbPVI48Ih0%3D&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&data%7C01%7Ctpape%40snm.ku.dk%7C0a8477f6e2c0456458
>>> > 7808dad316ce98%7Ca3927f91cda14696af898c9f1ceffa91%7C0%7C0%7C6380543921
>>> > 56176427%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiL
>>> > CJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=OpiPCjQxB3Kjnf
>>> > 9qQa2QlCokn7VTrPotQerCF3EJy%2BY%3D&reserved=0)
>>> > ,
>>> > 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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