Taxacom: Order Anura - correct authorship?

[Neal Evenhuis]

Yep. The Dum?ril date is 15 November 1805. (noted in Bibliographie de la France [BF]). Also noticed again on 5 December 1805 by BF).

Neal L. Evenhuis
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On Stardate 2/22/23, 9:13 AM, "Taxacom" <taxacom-bounces at lists.ku.edu> 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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