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Taxacom: Order Anura - correct authorship?

Tony Rees tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 22 13:14:30 CST 2023


Apologies for typo in the previous message, for Bubois read Dubois of
course.

- Tony


On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 06:12, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For what it is worth, the only Dum?ril reference given in the 2020 Bubois
> paper is
>
> Dum?ril, A. M. C. (1805) *Zoologie analytique, ou m?thode naturelle de
> classification des animaux, rendue plus facile ? l?aide de tableaux
> synoptiques*. Paris (Allais), ?1806?: i?xxxiii + 1?544. <
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> Maybe the known publication date has been adjusted backwards from 1806 to
> 1805, I'm not sure.
>
> - Tony
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 06:09, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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