International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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Cicada Linnaeus 1758 (Hemiptera). ICZN 2021: Opinion 2475

Cicadella Duméril 1806, Zool. Analyt. (Paris ed.): 266 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 647

Cicadella Latreille 1817, in Cuvier, Règne Anim., 3: 406 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Van Duzee 1916 (Checklist Hemipt. Amer. N. of Mexico: 66): Cicada viridis Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 438) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 647

Cicadella, all uses of, prior to that by Latreille 1817 (suppressed under the plenary power for thepurposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 647  

CICADELLIDAE Latreille 1825, Fam. nat. Règne Anim.: 427 (type genus: Cicadella Latreille 1817) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 647 

CICADIDAE Berthold 1827 (Hemiptera). ICZN 2021: Opinion 2475, ICZN Correction 138

Cichlasoma Swainson 1839, The natural history of fishes, amphibians and reptiles, or monocardian animals, vol. 2, p. 230 (gender: neuter) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Labrus bimaculatus Linnaeus 1758) (Osteichthyes, Perciformes). Opinion 1954

cichorii Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Meloe], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 419 (specific name of the type species of Mylabris Fabricius 1775) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1809 

Cicinnurus Vieillot 1816, Analyse nouv. Ornithol. élém.: 35 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Paradisaea regia Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 110) (Aves). Opinion 67 

Cidaris Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 1: 131 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592  

ciliaris Philippi 1837 [originally in Asterias], Arch. Naturgesch., 3(1): 194 (Asteroidea). Opinion 210 

ciliaris Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Cicada] (Hemiptera). ICZN 2020: Opinion 2466

ciliata Pallas 1766 [originally in Eschara], Elench. Zooph.: 38 (specific name of the type species of Microporella Hincks 1877) (Bryozoa). Opinion 458

ciliata Fabricius 1798 [originally in Notonecta], Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 524, 525 (specific name of the type species of Enithares Spinola 1837) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 875

ciliata Fabricius 1787 [originally in Squilla], Mantissa Ins., 1: 333 (specific name of the type species of Pseudosquilla Dana 1852) (Crustacea, Stomatopoda). Opinion 785

ciliatus Stimpson 1858 [originally in Ceratoplax], Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1858: 96 (specific name of the type species of Ceratoplax Stimpson 1858) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36 

ciliatus Emmons 1855 [originally in Glossograpsus (sic)], Amer. Geol., 1: 108 (specific name of the type species of Glossograptus Emmons 1855) (Graptolithina). Opinion 650

CIMBERIDAE Gozis 1882, Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, 12(137): 58 (an incorrect original spelling of CIMBERIDIDAE) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2111

CIMBERIDIDAE Gozis 1882, Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, 12(137): p. 58 (type genus: Cimberis Gozis 1881), ruled under the plenary power that it and other family-group names based on Cimberis are not to be given priority over NEMONYCHIDAE Bedel 1882 and other family-group names based on Nemonyx Redtenbacher 1845 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2111

Cimberis Gozis 1881, Annales de la Société entomologique de France, (6)1(3)(Bulletin): cxii (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Kuschel 1959, Investigaciones Zoológicas Chilensis, 5: 234: Rhinomacer attelaboides Fabricius 1787) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2111 

Cimbex Olivier 1790, Ency. méth., 5 (Ins.): 762 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Tenthredo lutea Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 555) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 144, Opinion 216 

Cimex Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 441 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Latreille [1803-1804] (in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 12: 237): Cimex lectularius Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 441) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 81 

CIMICIDAE Latreille [1802], (as CIMICIDES), in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 3: 240 (type genus: Cimex Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Direction 109 

CIMICIDES Latreille [1802], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 3: 240 (type genus: Cimex Linnaeus 1758) (an incorrect original spelling for CIMICIDAE Latreille [1802]). Direction 109 

cimicoides Burmeister 1838 [originally in Eureum], Handb. Entomol., 2(2): 441 (specific name of the type species of Eureum Nitzsch 1818) (Insecta, Mallophaga). Opinion 343  

cimicoides Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Nepa], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 440 (specific name of the type species of Ilyocoris Stål 1861) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 681  

cimolius Reeve 1847 [originally in Chiton], Conchologia Iconica, London, 4 Chiton (no. 141) (specific name of the type species of Lorica Adams & Adams 1852) (Polyplacophora). Opinion 1044 

Cinara Curtis 1835, Brit. Entomol., 7: pl. 576 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Aphis pini Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 453, to be interpreted by reference to the description published by de Geer 1773 (Mém. Hist. Ins., 3(2): 27-39) as selected by Goeze 1778 (Entomol. Beytr. Linn., 2: 304, 305) as first reviser) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 399, Opinion 398 

Cinaria Baker 1920, Bull. U.S. Dep. Agric., No. 826: 15 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Cinara Curtis 1835). Opinion 399 

CINARINI Börner 1930, Arch. klass. phyl. Entomol., 1: 125 (type genus: Cinara Curtis 1835) (published as a name for a taxon below subfamily rank) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Direction 54

cincolor Notestein (by whom this name was attributed to ‘J.’) 1905 [Crotalus durissus], Seventh Rep. Michigan Acad. Sci.: 123 (published in synonymy without independent indication, definition or description). Opinion 339

cincta Rondani 1856 [originally in Domomyza], Dipterologiae italicae prodromus. 1. Genera italica ordinis Dipterorum ordinatim disposita et distincta et in families et stirpes aggregata, p. 121 (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 1879 

cincta Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Podura], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 609 (specific name of the type species of Orchesella Templeton 1835) (Insecta, Collembola). Opinion 291

cinctella Draparnaud [1801] [originally in Helix], Tabl. Moll. terrestr. fluviat. France: 87 (specific name of the type species of Hygromia Risso 1826) (Gastropoda). Opinion 335

cinctus De Geer [originally in Nemotelus] (Diptera). ICZN 2018: Opinion 2429

cinctimanus White [1849] [originally in Carpilius], in Adams & White, Zool. Samarang’ (4) Crust.: 37 (specific name of the type species of Liomera Dana 1851) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36

cinerea Vandelli 1797 [originally in Amphisbaena], Mem. Acad. real Sci. Lisboa: 69 (specific name of the type species of Blanus Wagler 1830) (Reptilia). Opinion 1149  

cinerea, Ardea, Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 143 (specific name of the type species of Ardea Linnaeus 1758) (Aves). Direction 43

cinerea Illiger [1815] [originally in Lutra], Abh. K.-preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin, 1804-1811: 90 (name of a species of which Amblonyx concolor Rafinesque 1832, is considered to be a subspecies) (Mammalia). Opinion 384

cinerea [Tunstall] 1771 [originally in Motacilla], Ornithologia britannica: 2 (Aves). Opinion 882  

cinerea Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Nepa], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 440, ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over the specific name rubra Linnaeus 1758, as published in the binomen Nepa rubra whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1335 

cinerea Retzius 1783 [originally in Perla], in de Geer, Gen. Spec. Ins.: 60 (specific name of the type species of Nemoura Latreille 1796) (Insecta, Plecoptera). Opinion 653 

cinerea Green 1818 [originally in Salamandra], J. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1(2): 356 (conserved under the plenary power) (Amphibia). Opinion 665

cinerea Kerr 1792 [originally in Simia (Papio)], The Animal Kingdom, Mammalia: 62 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 935  

cinerea Laporte [1833] [originally in Stenopoda], Essai class. Syst. Hemipt., Mag. Zool. 2, Suppl.: 26 (specific name of the type species of Stenopoda Laporte [1833]) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 868 

cinerea Gould 1837 [originally in Struthidea] (Aves). ICZN 2016: Opinion 2380

cinereiceps Pelzeln 1868 [originally in Thamnophilus], Zur Ornithologie Brasiliens (2): 145 (Aves). Opinion 1180 

cinereoargenteus Schreber [1776] [originally in Canis], Die Säugthiere, 3: 360, pl. 92 (valid name at the date of Opinion 384 of the type species of Urocyon Baird 1857) (Mammalia). Opinion 384 

cinereoniger Wolf 1803 [originally in Limax], in Sturm’s Deutschlands Fauna, 6 (Wurm.) (1): 7 (Gastropoda). Opinion 336  

cinereous Le Conte 1852 [originally in Crotalus], in Hallowell, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5(5): 177 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 365 

cinereus Leach 1817 [originally in Acilius], Zool. Miscell., 3, Index: 143 (a junior objective synonym of sulcatus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Dytiscus]). Opinion 619  

cinereus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Dytiscus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 412, as interpreted by a neotype (specimen in the Lund Museum, Sweden, bearing identification labels as Graphoderus cinereus (Linnaeus 1758) by Angus, Foster & Nilsson plus the locality data ‘S: NA, Kvismaren 11/6 1982 Leg. Fagelstn’ and red labels ‘Neotypus’ and ‘Neotype ♂ Dytiscus cinereus Linnaeus 1758 des. A. Nilsson 1986’) designated under the plenary power, the neotype noted in Opinoin 618 having been set aside under the plenary power (specific name of the type species of Graphoderus Dejean 1833) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 618, Opinion 1543 

cinereus Zenker in Panzer 1799 [originally in Oniscus], Fauna insectorum Germanicae initia, oder Deutschlands Insecten ..., Heft 62, no. 22 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Isopoda). Opinion 1897

cinereus Linnaeus 1776 [originally in Todos (sic)], Cat. Birds Beasts Fishes Ins. Edwardsnat. Hist.: 12 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 412

cingala Moore 1877 [originally in Eterusia], Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (4)20: 343 (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 2151 

cingulata Robineau-Desvoidy 1830 [originally in Actia], Mémoires présentés par divers Savants à l’Académie Royale des Sciences de l’Institut de France, vol. 2, p. 86 (specific name of the type species of Elfia Robineau- Desvoidy 1850) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1432

Ciniflo Blackwall 1840, Proc. linn. Soc. London, 1(8): 66, and Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (1)6: 229 (a junior objective synonym of Amaurobius Koch 1837). Opinion 1119  

CINIFLONIDAE Blackwall 1840, Trans. linn. Soc. London, 18(4): 606 (type genus: Ciniflo Blackwall 1840) (a junior objective synonym of AMAUROBIINAE Thorell 1870, the respective type genera of these two families having the same nominal species as type species). Opinion 1119  

cinnabarina Scopoli 1763 [originally in Meloe], Entomologia carniolica, p. 60 (specific name of the senior subjective synonym of Cucujus depressus Fabricius 1775, the type species of Cucujus Fabricius 1775) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1754 

cinnamomea Lamarck 1801 [originally in Ancilla], Syst. Anim. sans Vertèbr.: 73 (specific name of the type species of Ancilla Lamarck 1799) (Gastropoda). Opinion 579

cinnamopterum Kirby 1837 [originally in Tetropium], in Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Americana, part 4, p. 174 (specific name of the type species of Tetropium Kirby 1837) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1473 

Cinxia Stål 1862, Stettin Entomol. Ztg., 23: 105 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 678  

cinxia Klug 1816 [originally in Tenthredo (Allantus)], Magazin. Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 8(1): 69-70 (senior subjective synonym of Caliroa sebetia A. Costa 1859, the type species of Caliroa A. Costa 1859) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1963

Ciona Fleming 1822, The philosophy of zoology (Edinburgh): 512 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Ascidia intestinalis Linnaeus 1767, Systema Naturae, Ed. 12. vol. 1, part 2, p. 1087) (Urochordata). Opinion 1172  

Circaetus Vieillot 1816, Analyse nouv. Ornithol. élém.: 23 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Falco gallicus Gmelin 1788, in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, vol. 1, part 1, p. 259) (Aves). Opinion 67 

Circe Schumacher 1817, Essai vers test.: 50, 152 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Circe violacea Schumacher 1817, Essai vers test.: 50, 152, valid name: Venus scripta Linnaeus 1758) (Bivalvia). Opinion 1189

circe Fabricius 1775 [originally in Papilio], Syst. Entomol.: 495 (specific name of the type species of Brintesia Fruhstorfer [1911]) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Direction 96  

circellaris Gravenhorst 1806 [originally in Aleochara], Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum, p. 155 (specific name of the type species of Geostiba Thomson 1858) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2098 

circezandis Fitch 1870 [originally in Aphis], Trans. New York Agric. Soc., for 1869, 29: 501, 502 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1137 

CIRCINAE Dall 1895, Trans. Wagner free Inst. Sci. Philadelphia, 3(3): 552 (type genus: Circe Schumacher 1817) (a junior homonym of CIRCINAE Sundevall 1836). Opinion 1189

CIRCINAE Sundevall 1836, K. Vetenskaps-Akad. Handl. for 1835: 113 (type genus: Circus Lacepède 1799) (Aves). Opinion 1189

circularis Olivier 1791 [originally in Coccinella], Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes, vol. 6, p. 62 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1693  

circumluteola Theobald 1908 [originally in Banksinella luteolateralis], Entomologist, 41: 107 (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1775

circumscriptus Johnston 1828 [originally in Arion], Edinburgh new phil. J., 5: 76 (Gastropoda). Opinion 336

circumspinosus Quenstedt 1857 [originally in Ammonites inflatus], Der Jura, p. 609, ruled under the plenary power to be an available name (senior subjective synonym of Ammonites circumspinosus Oppel 1863; specific name of the type species of Physodoceras Hyatt 1900) (Ammonoidea). Opinion 2123  

Circus Lacepède 1799, Tableau des Oiseaux: 4 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Lesson 1828 (Man. Ornithol., 1: 105): Falco aeruginosus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 91) (Aves). Opinion 1189

cirrhatus Gmelin [1789] [originally in Pelecanus], in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, vol. 1, part 2, p. 576 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 409 

cirridioides Kittl 1894 [originally in Euomphalus], Jahrb. k.-k. geol. Reichsanst., 44: 117, pl. 1, fig. 22 (Gastropoda). Opinion 639  

cirrosa Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Sciaena], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 289 (specific name of the type species of Umbrina Cuvier 1817) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 988 

cirrus Rafinesque  1810 (Aprile) [originally in Centracantus (sic)], Caratt. nuovi Gen. nuove Spec. Anim. Sicilia: 43 (specific name of the type species of Centracanthus Rafinesque 1810) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 960

Cisseis Gory & Laporte de Castelnau 1839 (Insecta, Coleoptera, BUPRESTIDAE): generic name not conserved. ICZN 2008: Opinion 2214 (Case 3366)

Cistela Geoffroy 1762, Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, vol. 1, p. 115 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1754  

Cistena Leach 1816, Encycl. brit., Annulosa, Suppl. to eds. 4-6, 1: 452 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle ofHomonymy). Opinion 1225

citrinellae Schrank 1776 [originally in Pediculus], Beytr. z. Naturg.: 116, pl. 5, fig. 7, as interpreted by the neotype designated by Clay & Hopkins 1954 (Bull. Brit. Mus. (nat. Hist.) Entomol., 3: 229) (Insecta, Mallophaga). Opinion 627 

citrinus Wilkes 1817 [originally in Motacilla], Encyclopaedia Londinensis, vol. 16, p. 78 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Aves). Opinion 1859 

citrofasciata De Geer 1776 [originally in Musca], Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des insectes, vol. 6, p.

citrosa Geyer 1832 [originally in Paidia], Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge bestehend in Bekundigung einzelner Fliegmuster neuer oder rarer nichteuropäische Gattungen, vol. 4, p. 18, pl. [114], figs. 661, 662 (specific name of the type species of Oncopus Herrich-Schäffer 1855) (Lepidoptera) Opinion 2189

civetta Schreber [1777] [originally in Viverra], Die Säugthiere, 3: 418; id., [1778], ibid., 3: pl. 111 (specific name of the type species of Civettictis Pocock 1915) (Mammalia). Opinion 384  

Civettictis Pocock 1915, Proc. zool. Soc. London, 1915: 134, 139 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Viverra civetta Schreber [1777], Die Säugthiere, 3: 418; id. [1778], ibid.: pl. 111) (Mammalia). Opinion 384