Taxacom: Order Anura - correct authorship?

[Tony Rees]

Also there exists the 2019 paper by Dubois and Ohler, in which the authors
contend that:

"the nomina used by Fischer (1813a) for the frogs and the salamanders were
not new nomina, but explicit subsequent usages, without any change in rank,
of the nomina of Dum?ril (1805)".

If this is correct, then the Dubois (2020) usage would be correct, and the
Blackburn & Wake, 2011 usage wrong.

Reference is Dubois, A., & Ohler, A. (2019). The nomina Anura, Urodela,
Ecaudata and Caudata, credited to ?Fischer von Waldheim, 1813?, do not
exist, with comments on the nomenclature of higher zoological taxa and on
the authorships and dates of other amphibian nomina. Bionomina, 14(1), 1-68
(full text available via ResearchGate).

Regards - 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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