International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS

taxa names:

Be

beadlei Goodman 1987 [originally in Hapalorhynchus], Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 106: 80, as defined by the lectotype (specimen illustrated in Fig. 1 of Goodman 1987, with the type locality ‘near Kampala, Uganda’ and the host ‘Pelusios sp.’) designated under the plenary power, the holotype having been set aside under the plenary power (Trematoda, Digenea). Opinion 1588 

Beanea Steindachner 1902, Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 39: 337 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Osteichthyes, Perciformes). Opinion 1481  

beaumonti Eliot 1906 [originally in Coryphella], J. mar. biol. Assoc. U.K., 7: 361 (valid name at the date of Opinion 783 of the type species of Cumanotus Odhner 1907) (Gastropoda). Opinion 783  

beautempsii de Quatrefages 1842 [originally in Edwardsia], Ann. Sci. nat. (Zool.), (2)18: 69 (specific name of the type species of Edwardsia de Quatrefages 1841) (Anthozoa). Opinion 1294 

bedeguaris Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Ichneumon], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 567 (specific name of the type species of Torymus Dalman 1820) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Direction 4

bedeguaris Retzius 1783 [originally in Ichneumon aureus] (Arthropoda). ICZN 2014: Opinion 2333

bedoti Zehntner 1894 [originally in Sphaerocarcinus], Rev. Suisse Zool., 2: 164 (specific name of the type species of Sphaerocarcinus Zehntner 1894) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36

bellula Brown 1979 [originally in Heliconius melpomene] (Lepidoptera: NYMPHALIDAE): suppression not approved. ICZN 2011: Opinion 2267 (Case 3492)

bei Ridgway 1874 [originally in Eremophila alpestris var.], in Baird, Brewer & Ridgway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, Land Birds, 2: 141, 142 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 448

Belemnella Nowak 1913, Bull. Acad. Sci. Cracovie, Ser. B, 1913: 393, 403-405 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by von Bülow-Trummer 1920 (Fossilium Catalogus, I, Animalia, pars 11: 195): Belemnites lanceolatus Schlotheim 1813, Leonhard’s Tasch. Min., 7: 111) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 1328 

Belemnitella d’Orbigny 1840, Paléontol. française, Terr. Crét., 1 (Ceph.): 59 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Herrmannsen, 1846 (Indicis Generum Malacozoorum Primordia, 1: 105): Belemnites mucronatus Schlotheim 1813, Leonhard’s Tasch. Min., 7: 111) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 1328  

BELEMNITELLIDAE Pavlow 1914, Mém. Acad. imp. Sci. St. Pétersbourg, 21(4): 7 (type genus: Belemnitella d’Orbigny 1840) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 1328

Belemnites Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 1: 65 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592

Belemnites Lamarck 1799, Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 1: 81 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1721 

BELEMNITIDAE Owen 1838, Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 2(2): 127, ruled under the plenary power to be unavailable, the name of its type genus, Belemnites Lamarck 1799, having been suppressed under the plenary power (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1721

belemnitoeides Buckland 1830 [originally in Orthoceras], Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 8: 23 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1914 

Belemnosepia Buckland & Agassiz 1836, in Buckland, W., Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, 1836: 39 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1914  

BELEMNOSEPIIDAE Naef 1921, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, 35: 47 (invalid because the name of the type genus, Belemnosepia Buckland & Agassiz in Buckland 1836, has been suppressed) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1914

Belemnoteuthis Pearce 1847, London Geological Journal, 2: pls. 15-16 (unavailable as an incorrect subsequent spelling of Belemnotheutis Pearce 1842) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1914

Belemnotheutis Pearce 1842, Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 3: 593 (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent monotypy by Pearce 1847, London Geological Journal, 2: pls. 15-16: Belemnoteuthis antiqua Pearce 1847) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1914 

belemnurus White 1874 [originally in Megalaspis], U.S. Army, Geogr. Geol. Expl. Surv. W. 100th Meridian, Prelim. Rep. Invert. Foss.: 11 (specific name of the type species of Xenostegium Walcott 1924) (Trilobita). Opinion 672  

belgica Pallas 1766 [originally in Nereis cylindraria], Misc. zoologica: 122, as interpreted by the neotype proposed by Nielsen, Kierkegaard & Lemche 1977 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 34: 118) and designated under the plenary power (specific name of the type species of Pectinaria Lamarck 1818) (Polychaeta). Opinion 1225 

bella Gory 1840 [originally in Buprestis], Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coléoptères. Monographie des buprestides, Supplement, p. 116, ruled under the plenary power to be treated as not invalid by reason of having been originally published as a junior primary homonym of Buprestis bella Guérin-Méneville 1830 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2008  

bella Stimpson 1860 [originally in Xantho], Ann. Lyceum nat. Hist. New York, 7: 204, pl. 3, fig. 2 (specific name of the type species of Lophopanopeus Rathbun 1898) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36 

bellatrix Stoll 1780 [originally in Phalaena], in Cramer, Uitlandsche Kapellen (Papillons exotiques), vol. 4, p. 32, pl. 305, fig. F (specific name of the type species of Crinodes Herrich-Schäffer 1855) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1378  

Bellia Bate 1851, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (2)7: 318 (a junior homonym of Bellia Milne Edwards 1848). Direction 37  

Bellia Gray 1869, Proceedings zool. Soc. London, 1869: 197 (a junior homonym of Bellia Milne Edwards 1848). Direction 37  

Bellia Milne Edwards 1848, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (3)9: 192 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Bellia picta Milne Edwards 1848, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (3)9: 192) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 73 

Bellia Tutt 1902, Nat. Hist. brit. Lep., 3: 386 (a junior homonym of Bellia Milne Edwards 1848). Direction 37  

bellii Gray 1845 [originally in Liolaemus], Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum, p. 212 (Reptilia, Squamata). Opinion 1909

bellii Gray 1831 [originally in Tropidolepis], in Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. (Eds.), The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, vol. 9 (Supplement), p. 44 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Reptilia, Squamata). Opinion 1909  

Bellocoris Hahn 1834, Wanzen. Ins., 2: 42 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Cimex austriacus Schrank 1776, Beytr. z. Naturg.: 78) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 248  

Bellota Peckham & Peckham 1892, Occas. Pap. nat. Hist. Soc. Wisconsin, 2: 67 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Bellota peckhami Galiano 1978, Rev. peruana Entomol., 21(1): 27) (Arachnida). Opinion 1265  

Belone Cuvier 1817, Règne Anim., Ed. 1, 2: 185 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by absolute tautonymy: Esox belone Linnaeus 1761, Fauna svec., Ed. 2: 126) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 225  

Belone Oken 1816, Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3(Zool.)(2): 102 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 225 

belone Linnaeus 1761 [originally in Esox], Fauna svec. (ed. 2): 126 (specific name of the type species of Belone Cuvier 1817) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 225 

benedicti Smith 1885 [originally in Ephyrina], Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 7: 506 (specific name of the type species of Ephyrina Smith 1885) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

bengalensis Daudin [1802] [originally in Tupinambis], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. Rept., 3: 67, a name taking precedence over cepedianus Daudin [1802] [originally in Tupinambis], by the action of Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1836 (Erpétologie gén., 3: 480) as first reviser (Reptilia). Opinion 540  

benghalensis Houttuyn [1787] [originally in Cicada], Anim. Mus. Houtt. Index: 86 (included in a work suppressed under the plenary power for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 380  

benghalensis Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Corvus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 106, as interpreted under the plenary power by the neotype designated by Biswas 1961 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 18: 218, 219, pl. 3) (Aves). Opinion 663  

bennettii Gray [1837] [originally in Cynogale], Proc. zool. Soc. London, 4: 88 (specific name of the type species of Cynogale Gray [1837]) (Mammalia). Opinion 384

benniworthensis Kelly 1978 [originally in Cucullaea], Bull. zool. Nomencl., 35: 128 (specific name of the type species of Dicranodonta Woods 1899) (Bivalvia). Opinion 1251  

benoit Rüppell 1852 [originally in Pharopteryx], Verz. Mus. Senck. naturf. Gesell. aufges. Samml., 4: 16, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the specific name kleinenbergi Giglioli 1889, as published in the binomen Eretmophorus kleinenbergi, by those who regard both names as denoting the same taxon (Osteichthyes). Opinion 1082  

BENTHESICYMINA Wood-Mason 1891, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (6)8: 286 (type genus: Benthesicymus Bate 1881) (an incorrect original spelling for BENTHESICYMINAE Wood-Mason 1891). Opinion 864 

BENTHESICYMINAE (correction of BENTHESICYMINA) Wood-Mason 1891, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (6)8: 286 (type genus: Benthesicymus Bate 1881) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 864  

Benthesicymus Bate 1881, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5)8: 171, 190 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Bate 1888 (Rep. Voy. ‘Challenger’, (Zool.)24: 320): Benthesicymus crenatus Bate 1881, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5)8: 190) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 864 

Benthochascon Alcock & Anderson 1899, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7)3: 10 (gender: masculine) (type species, through Article 68b(i): Benthochascon hemingi Alcock & Anderson 1899, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7)3: 10) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 73 

Benthonectes Smith 1885, Proceedings U.S. nat. Mus., 7: 509 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Benthonectes filipes Smith 1885, Proceedings U.S. nat. Mus., 7: 509) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 864 

Beosus Amyot & Serville 1843, in Roret’s Suites à Buffon, Hist. nat. Ins. Hémipt.: 254 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Cimex maritimus Scopoli 1763, Entomol. carn.: 129) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 249

bequaerti Fuller & Wharton 1951 [originally in Pseudoblankaartia], Psyche, 58(2): 85-88 (specific name of the type species of Pseudoblankaartia Fuller & Wharton 1951) (Arachnida). Opinion 655  

Beraea Stephens 1833, Nomencl. Brit. Ins., Ed. 2: 118 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Thya maurus Curtis 1834, London Edinburgh phil. Mag., (3)4: 216) (Insecta, Trichoptera). Opinion 589 

BERAEIDAE Wallengren 1891, K. svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., 24(10): 111 (type genus: Beraea Stephens 1833) (Insecta, Trichoptera). Opinion 589 

berecynthia Poda 1761 [originally in Papilio], Ins. Mus. graec.: 75 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 501 

berendtii Pictet 1856 [originally in Termes], in Pictet & Hagen, Die im Bernstein befindlichen Neuropteran der Vorwelt, in Berendt (Ed.), Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt, vol. 2, p. 49 (specific name of the type species of Proelectrotermes von Rosen 1913) (Insecta, Isoptera). Opinion 2007 

bergeri Agassiz 1833 [originally in Semionotus], Recherches sur les poissons fossiles, vol. 2, part 1, p. 8 (specific name of the type species of Semionotus Agassiz 1832) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 1438 

berghausi Michelotti 1847 [originally in Conus], Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Naatschappij der Wetenschappen te Haarlem, (2)3(2): 342, ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over the specific name of Conus demissus Philippi 1836 whenever the two names are considered to be synonyms (Gastropoda). Opinion 1699  

bergstraesserella Fabricius 1781 [originally in Tinea], Species Insectorum, vol. 2, p. 302 (specific name of the type species of Glyphipterix Hübner [1825]) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1418

Beringius Dall 1879, Sci. Res. Explor. Alaska, 1866-1874, 2: pl. 2 (introduced on a plate for a projected but never published volume, the plates for which were distributed privately by the author in 1879) (not duly published for the purposes of Article 8 and therefore possesses no status in nomenclature). Opinion 469

Beringius Dall 1886, Proceedings U.S. nat. Mus., 9: 304 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Chrysodomus crebricostatus Dall 1877, Prelim. Descr. new Spec. Moll. N.W. Coast Amer.: 1) (Gastropoda). Opinion 469  

berlandieri Baird 1858 [originally in Taxidea], Mammals of North America: 205 (Mammalia). Opinion 897

bermudensis Goode 1876 [originally in Holacanthus ciliaris], Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 5: 43, as defined by the neotype (specimen no. CAS-SU 363 in the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco) designated under the plenary power (Osteichthyes). Opinion 2003

Bernhardus Dana 1851, Proceedings Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 267 (a junior objective synonym of Pagurus Fabricius 1775). Opinion 472 

bernhardus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Cancer], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 631, as interpreted by the lectotype designated by Forest & Holthuis 1955 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 11: 312), namely the specimen figured by Swammerdam 1737 (Bybel der Natuure: pl. XI, fig. 1) (specific name of the type species of Pagurus Fabricius 1775) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 472

bernissartensis Boulenger in Beneden 1881 [originally in Iguanodon], Bulletin de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Classe des Sciences, (3)1(5): 606, as defined by the lectotype (skeleton Q, catalogue no. IRSNB 1534 in the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Brussels) designated under the plenary power (specific name of the type species of Iguanodon Mantell 1825) (Reptilia, Ornithischia). Opinion 1947

Berosus Leach 1817, The zoological miscellany, vol. 3, p. 92 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Dytiscus luridus Linnaeus 1761) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1577

Berus Oken 1816, Lehrb. Naturgesch., 3: 234 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 651 

BERYTIDAE Fieber [1851], Abhandlungen der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 5(7): 189 (type genus: Berytus Fabricius 1803, a junior objective synonym of Neides Latreille 1802) (Insecta, Heteroptera). Opinion 1504 

Berytinellus Stichel 1957, Illustrierte Bestimmungstabellen der Wanzen. II. Europa. (Hemiptera-Heteroptera Europae), vol. 4, Heft 2. Pentatomomorpha Lygaeoidea Piesmidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, part 1, p. 44 (a junior objective synonym of Lizinus Mulsant & Rey 1870) (Insecta, Heteroptera). Opinion 1504

Berytinus Kirkaldy 1900, Entomologist, 33: 241 (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Cimex clavipes Fabricius 1775), ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over Lizinus Mulsant & Rey 1870 and Melorus Mulsant & Rey 1870, whenever it and one of the other nominal genera are considered to be synonyms (Insecta, Heteroptera). Opinion 1504 

Berytus Fabricius 1803, Systema Rhyngotorum, p. 264 (a junior objective synonym of Neides Latreille 1802) (Insecta, Heteroptera). Opinion 1504

besseri Andrzejowski 1832 [originally in Anguis], Nouv. Mém. Soc. imp. Nat. Moscou, (2)2: 338, tab. 22, fig. 7, tab. 24 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 642 

Betaeus Dana 1852, Proceedings Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 16 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Fowler 1912 (Ann. Rep. New Jersey State Mus., 1911: 558): Betaeus truncatus Dana 1852, Proceedings Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 23) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470  

Bethylus Latreille [1802], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 3: 315 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Omalus fuscicornis Jurine 1807, Nouv. Méth. class. Hyménopt.: 301) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 153

betulæ De Geer 1775 [originally in Chrysomela cærulea] (Arthropoda). ICZN 2014: Opinion 2333

betulæ De Geer 1773 [originally in Cimex depressus] (Arthropoda). ICZN 2014: Opinion 2333

betulella Walsh 1862 [originally in Calaphis], Proc. entomol. Soc. Philadelphia, 1: 301 (specific name of the type species of Calaphis Walsh 1862) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1358  

betulina Walker 1852 [originally in Aphis], List Spec. homopt. Ins. Colls. brit. Mus., 4: 1039, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the specific name callunae Theobald 1915, as published in the binomen Aphis callunae, whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1308 

Beyrichia Boll 1847, Palaeontographica, 1: 127 (a junior homonym of Beyrichia McCoy 1846). Opinion 1196

Beyrichia McCoy 1846, Synopsis Silurian fossils of Ireland.., Dublin: 57 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Beyrichia kloedeni McCoy 1846, Synopsis Silurian fossils of Ireland ..., Dublin: 58) (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Opinion 1196  

BEYRICHIIDAE Matthew 1886, Proc. Trans. roy. Soc. Canada, (1)3(4): 63 (type genus: Beyrichia McCoy 1846) (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Opinion 1196

Bhatia Distant 1908, The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, vol. 4 (Rhynchota), p. 357 (gender: feminine) (type species, confirmed by the Commission to be by monotypy: Eutettix olivaceus Melichar 1903) (Insecta, Auchenorrhyncha). Opinion 1819