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Status of Names in the Officiai List of Family-
Group Names in Zoology
A number of family-group names have been
placed on the Official List by the Commission
of Nomenclature. The Code rules that: "The
status of a name entered in an Official List is
subject to the ruling(s) in any relevant
Opinion(s) [...]; all other aspects of its status
derive from the normal application of the Code"
(Art. 80.6.2) and also that: "A name may be
placed in an Official List without any additional
qualification" (Art. 80.6.3).
We have found a number of instances in
which the authorship and/or date of publication
of a name entered on the Official List are
erroneous, that is that name has been estab-
lished earlier by the same or another author.
For convenience, the corrections were published
in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomencla-
ture (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2001), but they did
not require any action from the Commission.
Since then, we have discovered another such
erroneous entry: Opinion 1470 placed the
name Eugmphalidae on the Official List and
attributed it to de Koninck, 1 881 ,
in fact first established by White, 1 877.
when
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it was
Cases to be Submitted to the Commission
Inevitably, a review of family-group names
such as the present one has made apparent a
All names
2396
available 2060
not available 336
number of nomenclatural cases that cannot
be solved without a decision of the Commission.
The problems are simply discussed under
the appropriate headings in the
Nomenclátor or in the Appendices. It was felt
inappropriate to prepare applications for publication
in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
before publication of the present work:
first, because it is precisely the purpose of the
present work to highlight the problems, elicit
discussion and seek a consensus among
malacologists; second, because it is not pos-
sible to monopolize several issues of the Bul-
letin of Zoological Nomenclature just to deal
with the many cases involved. A solution to all
these problems will probably take several
years. Ultimately, the present Nomenclátor
could, after amendments, become a Part of
the List of Available Names in Zoology, as
regulated by Article 79 of the Code.
Nomenclátor
Epidemiology of Gastropod Family-Group
Names
A total of 2,396 names at the rank of subtribe,
tribe, subfamily, family, and superfamily have
been proposed for Recent and fossil gastropods,
or have, at one time or another, been
used at these ranks. Of these, 336 are not
available names, mainly because they are not
potentially valid
1947
invalid 113
611
taxonomically valid
at family rank
1336
synonyms or used
at subfamily/tribe
FIG. 1. How the nomenclatural and taxonomical filters operate on the 2,396 names established or
used for gastropod families, subfamilies, tribes, or subtribes.
rank