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Taxacom: Order Anura - correct authorship?

Tony Rees tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 13:09:59 CST 2023


Dear Taxacomers,

I realise that the ICZN Code does not regulate names and/or cited
authorships above the rank of family (or more correctly, family-group),
however I was wondering whether anyone can assist me with the "best" i.e.
most correct authorship for the amphibian order Anura (frogs). E.g.
Wikipedia currently gives "Order Anura Dum?ril, 1806 (as Anoures)", and
many other published sources also give Dum?ril, 1806 as the authority, as
does Dubois in 2004 in this work "The higher nomenclature of recent
amphibians", Alytes, 2004, 22 (1-2): 1-14.

However later, Dubois appears to use Dum?ril, 1805 in this work: DUBOIS,
A., & FR?TEY, T. (2020). Herpetological higher taxa nomina 2. Anura
Dum?ril, 1805. Bionomina, 20(1), 1-16 (not open access, I have only seen
the title and abstract).

Meanwhile Wikispecies presently follows Blackburn & Wake, 2011, Class
Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39?55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal
biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of
taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1?237, who cite the order as Anura
Fischer von Waldheim, 1813, without any mention of  Dum?ril, so far as I
can see.

ITIS appears to give no authorship for Anura, neither does the AMNH
"Amphibian Species of the World" database.

Any thoughts, recommendations?

Thanks in advance - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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