BionominaPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.34.1.3
Rodrigo Bernal, Alain Dubois
{"title":"Chironius scurrula, the correct nomen for Chironius scurrulus (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae), with a list of the correct spellings of specific epithets currently in use in this genus","authors":"Rodrigo Bernal, Alain Dubois","doi":"10.11646/bionomina.34.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.34.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"The correct epithet of the snake species so far known as Chironius scurrulus Wagler in Spix, 1824 is shown to be scurrula, as it is not an adjective but a noun in apposition to the generic substantive, therefore invariable. This case prompted us to review the grammatical status of the epithets of the 23 species currently considered valid in the genus Chironius Fitzinger, 1826. Only about 56.5 % of these epithets turned out to be adjectives agreeing in gender with the generic nomina with which they are combined. Although this proportion will be very variable from one zoological genus to another, it is likely that in genera with a high number of species (10‒20 or more), some epithets will not agree in gender with the genus nomina. In order to avoid subsequent corrections in the spellings of epithets (and therefore ‘nomenclatural instability’), taxonomists are therefore encouraged to pay attention to this question. As a consequence of this survey, we also provide new information on a few miscellaneous questions: the author of the type species designation for Chironius; the author, date, type specimen and type locality of the nominal taxon Chironius flavolineatus; and the etymology and status of the epithets of the bionomina Chironius foveatus and Chironius leucometapus.","PeriodicalId":503362,"journal":{"name":"Bionomina","volume":"47 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139265309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BionominaPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.34.1.1
Alessandro Minelli
{"title":"The document that is not there","authors":"Alessandro Minelli","doi":"10.11646/bionomina.34.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.34.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Zoological nomenclature, the essential tool for exchanging information about the animal world, cannot depart from the principles of universality and stability fixed in the Code as its aim and pursued through the application of rules stemming from the principles of publication, typification and priority. To enforce these rules, we need to preserve and critically evaluate the whole record of publications (and associated specimens) available thus far. Attemps to erase part of this record or to dismiss names or documents as contrary to principles that have nothing to do with the scientific names of animals are increasingly widespread and even creep into a major repository of bibliographic record as the Biodiversity Heritage Library. This trend must be promptly rebutted.","PeriodicalId":503362,"journal":{"name":"Bionomina","volume":"76 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139264200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BionominaPub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.34.1.2
Alain Dubois, T. Frétey
{"title":"Problems with the availability of zoological nomenclatural acts published online: the case of the Journal of Herpetology","authors":"Alain Dubois, T. Frétey","doi":"10.11646/bionomina.34.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.34.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"In September 2012, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature was amended in order to allow the online publication of new nomina and nomenclatural acts, provided some conditions are respected. One of them is that such electronic publications be pre- and postregistered in the database Zoobank, and that this registration be mentioned in their PDFs. Unfortunately, these requirements were ignored by part of the international community of zootaxonomists and of publishers. Here we draw the attention to the fact that the famous Journal of Herpetology, which has been published only online since 2021, has since then not respected them in most (10 out of 13) of its taxonomic papers including nomenclatural novelties, thus failing to provide nomenclatural availability to them.","PeriodicalId":503362,"journal":{"name":"Bionomina","volume":"3 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139263989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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