International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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byronia de Blainville 1820 [originally in Phoca], Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d’Histoire Naturelle, 91: 287, 300 (first available subjective synonym of Phoca leonina Molina 1782, the type species ofOtaria Péron 1816 and a junior primary homonym of Phoca leonina Linnaeus 1758) (Mammalia, Pinnipedia). Opinion 1962

Byrrhus Geoffroy 1762, Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, vol. 1, p. 108, and all uses of the name prior to the publication of Byrrhus Linnaeus 1767 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1754

Byrrhus Linnaeus 1767, Systema Naturae, Ed. 12, vol. 1, part 2, p. 568 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Latreille, 1810, Considerations générales sur ... les classes des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes, p. 428: Dermestes pilula Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1754  

Byrsocrypta Haliday 1838, Ann. nat. Hist., 2(9): 190 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1019

Bythiia Bollinger 1912, NachBl. deutsch. Malakozool. Ges., 44: 177 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithynia Leach 1818). Opinion 475

Bythina Rosen 1925, Arch. Molluskenk., 57(3): 120 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithynia Leach 1818). Opinion 475 

Bythinea Nevill 1881, J. asiat. Soc. Bengal, 50(Pt. 2)(3): 156 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithynia Leach 1818). Opinion 475

Bythinella Moquin-Tandon 1856, Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France ..., pp. 515–516 (gender: feminine), ruled under the plenary power that all previous fixations of the type species are set aside and Bulimus viridis Poiret 1801 is designated as the type species (Gastropoda). Opinion 2161

Bythinia MacGillivray 1843, Hist. Moll. Aberdeen: 124 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithynia Leach 1818). Opinion 475 

Bythinia Stein 1850, Schnecken Muscheln Berlins: 95 (an unjustified emendation of Bithinia Gray, 1821). Opinion 475  

Bythinus Leach 1817, Zool. Miscell., 3: 80, 83 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Westwood, 1838 (Introd. mod. Classific. Ins., Generic Synopsis: 21): Pselaphus securiger Reichenbach 1816, Mon. Pselaph.: 45) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 887 

Bythis Geyer [1827-1831], in Hübner, Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett., 3: 11 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithys Hübner 1818). Opinion 541  

Bythocaris Sars 1870, Forh. Vidensk.-Selsk. Christiania, 1869: 149 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Bythocaris simplicirostris Sars 1870, Forh. Vidensk.-Selsk. Christiania, 1869: 149) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

Bythynia Prashad 1925, Rec. Indian Mus., 27: 349 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithynia Leach 1818). Opinion 475 

Bytinia Millet de la Turtaudière 1870, Faune Invertébrés Maine-et-Loire, 1: 56 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Bithynia Leach 1818). Opinion 475

Byzenus Rafinesque 1814, Précis Découv. Trav. somiolog.: 23 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 522