International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
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taxa names:

Ag

Agama Daudin [1802], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. Rept., 3: 333 (gender: feminine) (type species, by absolute tautonymy: Lacerta agama Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 207) (Reptilia). Opinion 565

agama Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Lacerta], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 207 (specific name of the type species of Agama Daudin [1802]) (Reptilia). Opinion 565

AGAMIDAE (correction by Gray 1827, of AGAMOIDEA) Fitzinger 1826, Neue Classif. Rept.: 11, 17 (type genus: Agama Daudin, [1802]), a name having precedence over PNEUSTOIDEA Fitzinger 1826 and DRACONOIDEA Fitzinger 1826, these being names published in the same work on the same date, through the first reviser selection made by Smith 1957 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 13: 275) (Reptilia). Opinion 565

AGAMOIDEA Fitzinger 1826, Neue Classif. Rept.: 11, 17 (type genus: Agama Daudin [1802]) (an incorrect original spelling for AGAMIDAE Fitzinger 1826). Opinion 565

Agapetes Billberg 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billberg: 78 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 400

AGAPETINAE Verity 1953, Farfalle diurne Ital., 5: 3, 46 (type genus: Agapetes Billberg, 1820) (invalid (i) because a junior objective synonym of MELANARGIINAE Verity 1920, the respective type genera of the two families having the same nominal species as type species and (ii) because the name of the type genus has been suppressed under the plenary power). Direction 54

Agasoma Gabb [1869], Geol. Surv. Calif., Paleontol., 2 (Sect. 1) (2): 46 (gender: neuter) (type species, by designation by Cossman, 1901 (Essais Paléoconch. comp., 4: 198): Clavella sinuata Gabb [1866], Geol. Surv. Calif., Paleontol., 2 (Sect. 1) (1): 5) (Gastropoda). Opinion 121

Agassiceras Hyatt 1875, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 17: 225 (gender: neuter) (type species, by designation by Buckman, 1894 (Geol. Mag., (4)1: 361): Ammonites scipionianus d’Orbigny 1844, Paléontol. franç., Terr. jurass., 1: 207, pl. 51, figs. 7, 8) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 324

AGASSICERATIDAE Spath 1924, Proc. Geol. Assoc., London, 35: 189, 207 (type genus: Agassiceras Hyatt 1875), for use by those who consider that Agassiceras Hyatt 1875 and Arietites Waagen 1869 belong to different family-group taxa (Cephalopoda). Direction 14

agassizi Coutière 1901 [originally in Coralliocaris], Bull. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 7: 115 (specific name of the type species of Coutierea Nobili 1901) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

agassizii Milne Edwards 1880 [originally in Eucratodes], Miss. Sci. Mex., Rech. zool., 5 (fasc. 8): 347, pl. 61, fig. 1 (specific name of the type species of Eucratodes Milne Edwards 1880) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36

agassizii Eudes-Deslongchamps 1835 [originally in Teudopsis], Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie, 5: 72 (specific name of the type species of Jeletzkyteuthis Doyle 1990) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1914

Agatachys Meigen 1830, Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten, Theil 6, p. 343 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1881

Agchylostoma Dubini 1843, Ann. Univ. Med., Milano, 106 (No. 316): 5, 10 (an incorrect original spelling for Ancylostoma Dubini 1843). Direction 76

agilis Milne Edwards 1872 [originally in Hydrothelphusa], Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (5)15 (No. 21): 2 (specific name of the type species of Hydrothelphusa Milne Edwards 1872) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36

agilis Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Lacerta], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 203 (specific name of the type species of Lacerta Linnaeus 1758) (Reptilia). Direction 57

agilis Kaltenbach 1843 [originally in Lachnus], Mon. Phytophthires: 161, 162 (specific name of the type species of Eulachnus del Guercio 1909) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 748.

agilis Cresson 1878 [Melissodes], Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 30(2): 204 (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1852

Aglaia [sic] Renier [1804], Prospetto Classe Vermi: XVI (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 427

Aglaia Brady 1867, in Folin & Périer, Les fonds de la mer, 1: 89 (a junior homonym of Aglaia Swainson, 1827). Opinion 1079 

AGLAINAE Swainson 1837, Nat. Hist. Classific. Birds, 2: 275 (in Lardner’s Cabinet Cycloped., 92) (unavailable because not based on the name of an included genus). Opinion 1079

Aglaja [Renier] [1807], [Tav. serv. Class. Conn. Anim.]: Tav. VIII (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Suter, 1913 (Manual New Zealand Moll.: 542): Aglaja tricolorata [Renier] [1807], [Tav. serv. Class. Conn. Anim.]: Tav. VIII) (ruled under the plenary power to be an available name) (Gastropoda). Opinion 1079

Aglaja Eschscholtz 1825, Isis (Oken), 16: 743 (a junior homonym of Aglaja [Renier] [1807]). Opinion 1079

aglaja Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Papilio] (Nymphalidae), Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 481 (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 974

aglaja Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Papilio] (Pieridae), Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 465 (a junior homonym of Papilio aglaja Linnaeus 1758 (Nymphalidae)). Opinion 974

AGLAJIDAE Pilsbry 1895 (1847), in Tryon, Man. Conch., 16: 43 (type genus: Aglaja [Renier] [1807]) (Gastropoda). Opinion 1079.

Aglaope Rafinesque 1814, Précis Découv. Trav. somiolog.: 24 (a junior homonym of Aglaope Latreille 1809). Opinion 522

AGONIDAE Kirby 1837, in Richardson, Swainson & Kirby (Eds.), Fauna Boreali-Americana . . ., part 4, p. 23, spelling emended to AGONUMIDAE following the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Agonum Bonelli 1810 is AGONUM- (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1855

AGONIDAE Swainson 1839, The natural history of fishes, amphibians, and reptiles or monocardian animals, vol. 2, p. 181 (type genus: Agonus Bloch & Schneider 1801) (Osteichthyes, Scorpaeniformes). Opinion 1855

Agonum Bonelli 1810, Observations entomologiques, Première partie. Tabula Synoptica exhibens genera Carabicorum in Sectiones et Stirpes disposita, text published, 1810, in Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences, Littérature et Beaux-Arts de Turin, 18: 21-78 (gender: neuter) (type species, by subsequent designation by Curtis, 1827, British entomology ..., vol. 4, text to pl. 183: Carabus marginatus Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1855.

AGONUMIDAE Kirby 1837, in Richardson, Swainson & Kirby (Eds.), Fauna Boreali-Americana ..., part 4, p. 23 (type genus: Agonum Bonelli 1810), spelling emended from AGONIDAE by the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Agonum Bonelli 1810 is AGONUM- (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1855 

Agonus Bloch & Schneider 1801, M.E. Blochii ... Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit J. Gottlob Schneider ..., vol. 1, p. 104 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Tilesius [1814], in Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, vol. 3, p. 109, footnote: Cottus cataphractus Linnaeus 1758) (Osteichthyes, Scorpaeniformes). Opinion 1855

Agouti Lacepède 1799, Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et genres des mammifères. In: Discours de l’ouverture et de clôture du cours d’Histoire Naturelle donné dans le Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle ..., l’an VII de la République, et Tableaux méthodiques des Mammifères et des Oiseaux, p. 9 (a junior objective synonym of Cuniculus Brisson 1762) (Mammalia, Rodentia). Opinion 1894

agreste Brants 1827 [originally in Ratton], Het Geslacht der Muizen door Linnaeus opgesteld (Berlin): 184 (a vernacular name). Opinion 1232

Agriades Hübner [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett., (5): 68 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Papilio glandon Prunner 1798, Lepid. pedemont.: 76) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 270.

Agrodes Nordmann 1837, Symbolae ad monographiam staphylinorum, p. 161 (gender: neuter) (type species, by monotypy: Agrodes elegans Nordmann 1837) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1851

AGRODINI Nordmann 1837, Symbolae ad monographiam staphylinorum, p. 7 (type genus: Agrodes Nordmann 1837), ruled under the plenary power that this name and other family-group names based on Agrodes are not to be given priority over XANTHOLININI Erichson 1839 and other family-group names based on Xantholinus Dejean 1821 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1851

Agromyza Fallén 1810, Specimen entomologiae novam Diptera ..., p. 21 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Agromyza reptans Fallén 1823) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1476

agrorum Fallén 1808 [originally in Tenthredo], Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar, 29(1): 60 (senior subjective synonym of Tenthredo (Allantus) nitida Klug, 1817, the type species of Taxonus Hartig 1837) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1963

Agrotiphila Grote 1875, Ann. Lyc. nat. Hist. N.Y., 11: 108 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Agrotiphila colorado Smith 1891, Trans. Amer. entomol. Soc., 18: 133-135) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 983

Agrotis Hübner 1808, Erste Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett.: 4 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 789

aguimp Temminck [1820] [originally in Motacilla], Manual d’ornithologie, Ed. 2, part 1, p. lxviii (Aves). Opinion 1859 

agulhasensis Bate 1888 [originally in Merhippolyte], Rep. Voy. ‘Challenger’ (Zool.), 24: 619 (specific name of the type species of Merhippolyte Bate 1888) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

aguti Linnaeus 1766 [originally in Mus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1, p. 80 (specific name of the type species of Dasyprocta Illiger 1811) (Mammalia). Direction 22