International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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Dacryopilumnus Nobili 1906, Bull. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 12: 263 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Dacryopilumnus eremita Nobili 1906, Bull. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 12: 264) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 73 

Dactylamoeba Korotneff 1880, Arch. Zool. exp. gen., 8: 470 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Dactylamoeba elongata Korotneff 1880, Arch. Zool. exp. gen., 8: 469, 470) ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the generic name Mayorella Schaeffer 1926 whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Rhizopoda). Opinion 1344  

Dactylioceras Hyatt 1867, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 1(5): 95 (gender: neuter) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Ammonites communis Sowerby 1815, Min. Conch., 2: 10) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 576 

DACTYLIOCERATIDAE (correction of DACTYLOIDAE) Hyatt 1867, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 1(5): 87, 94 (type genus: Dactylioceras Hyatt 1867) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 576

Dactylocera Latreille 1829, in Cuvier, Règne Animal (ed. 2), 4: 117 (a junior objective synonym of Phrosina Risso 1822). Opinion 1133

Dactyloceras Fischer 1879, J. Conchyliol., 27: 254 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dactylioceras Hyatt 1867). Opinion 576

DACTYLOIDAE Hyatt 1867, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 1(5): 87, 94 (type genus: Dactylioceras Hyatt 1867) (an incorrect original spelling for DACTYLIOCERATIDAE Hyatt 1867). Opinion 576  

DACTYLOPIIDAE (correction of DACTYLOPITES) Signoret 1875, Ann. Soc. entomol. France, (5)5: 305 (type genus: Dactylopius Costa 1829 (Nov.)) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1247

Dactylopius Costa  1829 (Nov.), Fauna del Regno di Napoli, Coccinigliferi: 2, 15 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Dactylopius coccus Costa  1829 (Nov.), Fauna del Regno di Napoli, Coccinigliferi: 16) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1247

DACTYLOPODIINAE Lang 1936, Further zool. results of the Swedish Antarctic Exped., 3(3): 22, 29 (type genus: Dactylopusia Norman 1903) (an incorrect original spelling for DACTYLOPUSIINAE Lang 1936). Opinion 1356 

Dactylopusia Norman 1903, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7)11: 368 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Dactylopus tisboides Claus 1863, Die frei lebenden Copepoden: 126) (Crustacea, Copepoda). Opinion 1356

DACTYLOPUSIINAE (correction by Vervoort (1963) of DACTYLOPODIINAE) Lang 1936, Further zool. results of the Swedish Antarctic Exped., 3(3): 22, 29 (type genus: Dactylopusia Norman 1903) (Crustacea, Copepoda). Opinion 1356

Dactylozodes Chevrolat 1838 (Insecta, Coleoptera): name not conserved. ICZN 2009: Opinion 2228 (Case 3393)

daea Dampf 1910 [originally in Palaeopsylla], Zool. Jahresb., 12, Suppl.: 633, figs. Q-V, to be interpreted as directed under the plenary power by reference to the lectotype designated by Hopkins 1956 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 11: 351) (Insecta, Siphonaptera). Opinion 491 

dahalacensis Rüppell 1837 [originally in Estheria], in Straus-Durckheim, Abh. Mus. Senckenb., 2(2): 126 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Opinion 553

Daira de Haan [1833], in Siebold, Fauna japon. (Crust.): 4, 18 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Cancer perlatus Herbst [1790], Versuch. Naturgesch. Krabben Krebse, 1(8): 265) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 73, Direction 78

Daira Gistl [1847], Handb. Naturgesch.: 575 ; id., 1848, Nat. Thierr.: 174 (a junior homonym of Daira de Haan [1833]). Direction 78  

Daira Milne Edwards 1830, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris, 20: 392 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Direction 78 

Dairilia Dana 1853, U.S. Explor. Exped., 13(2): 1595, 1596 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy through Daira Milne Edwards 1830 (for which Dairilia Dana 1853, was published as a replacement name): Daira gabertii Milne Edwards 1830, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris, 20: 393) (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Direction 78 

Dairinia Bate 1862, Cat. amph. Crust. Brit. Mus.: 309 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dairilia Dana 1853). Direction 78  

Daldorfia Rathbun 1904, Proc. biol. Soc. Washington, 17: 171 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Cancer horridus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 629) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 696  

Dalla Mabille 1904, Genera Insectorum, 17: 107 (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Lindsey 1921, University of Iowa Studies in Natural History, 9(4): 58: Cyclopides eryonas Hewitson 1877) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1669 

Dama Frisch 1775, Natur-Syst. vierfüssig. Thiere: 3, [31], table at end (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Cervus dama Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 67) (Mammalia). Opinion 581

Dama Gray 1825, Ann. Phil., 26: 342 (a nomen nudum). Opinion 581 

Dama Gray 1850, Gleanings Menagerie Knowlsey Hall, Horned Quadr., 1: 5 (a junior homonym of Dama Frisch 1775). Opinion 581  

Dama Smith 1827, in Griffith’s Cuvier, Anim. Kingdom: Syn. 306 (a junior homonym of Dama Frisch 1775). Opinion 581

Dama Zimmermann 1777, Spec. zool. geogr.: 353, 532 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 581  

Dama Zimmermann 1780 Geogr. Gesch. Mens., 2: 129 (a junior homonym of Dama Frisch 1775). Opinion 581

dama Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Cervus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 67 (specific name of the type species of Dama Frisch 1775) (Mammalia). Opinion 581

Damalis Fabricius 1805, Systema Antliatorum: 147 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Damalis planiceps Fabricius 1805, Systema Antliatorum: 148) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1342

Damesella Walcott 1905 (gender: feminine), available not with standing similarity in spelling to Damesiella Tornquist 1899 (Opinion 25)

damesi Jimbo 1894 [originally in Desmoceras], Palaeontol. Abhandl., 6 (N.F., 2) (3): 172 (specific name of the type species of Damesites Matsumoto 1942) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 555

Damesiella Tornquist 1899 (gender: feminine), an available name (Opinion 25)

Damesites Matsumoto 1942, Proc. imp. Acad. Japan, 18: 24 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Desmoceras damesi Jimbo 1894, Pal. Abhandl., 6(N.F. 2)(3): 172) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 555  

danae Milne Edwards 1869 [originally in Goniosoma], Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 5: 153 (specific name of the type species of Thalamonyx Milne Edwards 1873) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36 

danae Paulson 1875 [originally in Nikoides], Issljed. Rakoobr. krasn. Morja [Stud. Crust. Red Sea]: 98 (specific name of the type species of Nikoides Paulson 1875) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470 

danae Fabricius 1775 [originally in Papilio], Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. [xxxii], Officina Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi & Lipsiae, p. 476 (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 2279

danae  Hufnagel 1766 [originally in Papilio], Berlinisches Magazin, oder gesammlete Schriften und Nachrichten für die Liebhaber der Arzneywissenschaft, Naturgeschichte und der angenehmen Wissenschaften überhaupt, 2(1): 82, suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 2279

danae Joubin 1931 [originally in Taningia], Annales de l’Institut Océanographique, 10: 181, ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over the specific name of Octopodoteuthis persica Naef 1923 whenever the two names are considered to be synonyms (specific name of the type species of Taningia Joubin 1931) (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Opinion 1768

DANAIDAE (correction of DANAIDES) Boisduval [1833], Icon. hist. Lépid. Europ., 1(9): 84 (type genus: Danaus Kluk 1802) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Direction 99 

DANAIDES Boisduval [1833], Icon. hist. Lépid. Europ., 1(9): 84 (type genus: Danaus Kluk 1802) (an incorrect original spelling for DANAIDAE Boisduval [1833]). Direction 99 

DANAIDIDAE Reuter 1897, Acta Soc. Sci. fenn., 22: 301 (type genus: Danaus Kluk 1802) (an incorrect subsequent spelling for DANAIDAE Boisduval [1833]). Direction 99  

dananus Hitchcock 1845 [originally in Eubrontes], Assoc. amer. Geologists, Naturalists Rep., 1845: 23 (a junior objective synonym of sillimani Hitchcock 1843 [originally in Ornithoidichnites]). Opinion 535

Danaus Kluk 1802, Zwierz. Hist. nat. pocz. gospod., 4: 84 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Hemming 1933 (Entomologist, 66: 222): Papilio plexippus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 471, as interpreted by the neotype designated under the plenary power, namely the male specimen figured by Clark 1941 (Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 90: pl. 71, fig. 1) and refigured in Opinion 282 (Ops. Decls. int. Comm. zool. Nomencl., 6: pl. 2) (restricted type locality: ‘Kendall, New York State’)) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 278

danieli Amaral 1934 [originally in Mastigodryas], Mems. Inst. Butantan, 8: 158 (specific name of the type species of Mastigodryas Amaral 1934) (Reptilia). Opinion 1035  

danilewskyi Ziemann 1898 [originally in Leukocytozoen], Ueber Malaria- und andere Blutparasiten nebst Anhang. Eine wirksame Methode der Chromatin- und Blutfärbung, p. 128, pl. 3, figs. 29-33 (specific name of the type species of Leucocytozoon Berestneff 1904) (Protista). Opinion 1971

dantici Rossi 1790 [originally in Vespa], Fauna Etrusca, 2: 89 (specific name of the type species of Euodynerus Dalla Torre 1904) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 893  

Dapanus Hentz 1867, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 11: 4 (suppressed under the plenary powerfor the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1083

daplidice Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Papilio], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 468 (specific name of the type species of Pontia Fabricius 1807) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 232

Dapsilarthra Foerster 1862, Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 19: 267 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Alysia apii Curtis 1826) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1424  

Dardanus Paulson 1875, Issljed. Rakoobr. krasn. Morja [Stud. Crust. Red Sea]: 90 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Dardanus hellerii Paulson 1875, Issljed. Rakoobr. krasn. Morja [Stud. Crust. Red Sea]: 90, valid name: Pagurus sanguinolentus Quoy & Gaimard 1825) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 472  

dardanus Brown 1776 [originally in Papilio], New Illustr. Zool.: 52 (conserved under the plenary power) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 620

dardanus Cramer 1775 [originally in Papilio], Uitl. Kapellen, 1: 25, pl. 17, figs. E, F (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 620 

dardanus Fabricius 1793 [originally in Papilio], Entomol. syst., 3: 10 (a junior primary homonym of dardanus Brown 1776 [originally in Papilio]). Opinion 620

Darevskia Arribas 1999 (Reptilia). ICZN 2020: Opinion 2461

Daristane Walker 1859, J. linn. Soc. London, 3: 193 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Daristane tibiaria Walker 1859, J. linn. Soc. London, 3: 194) ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over Striglina Guénée 1877 whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1075

darwiniensis Froggatt 1897 [originally in Mastotermes], Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 21: 519, as defined by the neotype (a female alate registered as Type No. 9033 in the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra) designated by Hill 1942, Termites (Isoptera) from the Australian Region, p. 21, and confirmed by the Commission (Insecta, Isoptera). Opinion 1808

darwinii Sowerby 1849 [originally in Pholas], Thesaurus conchylium, 2(10): 490, pl. 107, figs. 76, 77 (specific name of the type species of Netastoma Carpenter 1864) (Bivalvia). Opinion 1296 

Dasineura Rondani 1840, Memoria per servire alla ditterologia italiana. No. 2 (Sopra alcuni nuovi generi di insetti ditteri), p. 12 (gender: feminine) (type species, ruled under the plenary power to be by subsequent designation by Rondani 1860, Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, 2: 288: Tipula sisymbrii Schrank 1803) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1911  

Dasiopa Coquillet 1910, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 37: 531 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dasiops Rondani 1856). Opinion 652  

Dasiops Rondani 1856, Dipterol. ital. Prodr., 1: 120 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Lonchaea latifrons Meigen 1826, Syst. Beschr. zweifl. Ins., 5: 308) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 652

dasiops Rondani 1856 [originally in Lonchea (sic)], Dipterol. ital. Prodr., 1: 120 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for dasyops, Lonchaea, Meigen 1826). Opinion 652 

dasya Peringuey 1899 [originally in Mutilla] (Hymenoptera). ICZN 2016: Opinion 2386

Dasycaris Kemp 1922, Rec. Indian Mus., 24: 240 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Dasycaris symbiotes Kemp 1922, Rec. Indian Mus., 24: 240) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470  

Dasychira Hübner [1809], Samml. exot. Schmett., 1: pl. [178] (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Dasychira tephra Hübner [1809], Samml. exot. Schmett.,1: pl. [178]) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1283 

DASYCHIRIDAE Packard 1864, Proc. entomol. Soc. Philadelphia, 3: 331 (type genus: Dasychira Hübner [1809]), ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over LYMANTRIIDAE Hampson [1893] whenever Dasychira Hübner [1809] and Lymantria Hübner [1819] are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1283

Dasyneura Agassiz 1846, Nomenclator Zoologicus. Nomina Systematica Generum Dipterorum, p. 11 (an unjustified emendation of Dasineura Rondani 1840 and a junior homonym of Dasyneura Saunders 1842) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1911  

Dasyops Scudder 1882, Nomencl. zool. (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dasiops Rondani 1856). Opinion 652

dasyops Meigen 1826 [originally in Lonchaea], Syst. Beschr. zweifl. Ins., 5: 308 (specific name of the type species of Chaetolonchaea Czerny 1934) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 652

DASYPELTINAE Cope 1886, Proc. amer. phil. Soc., 23: 494 (type genus: Dasypeltis Wagler 1830) (Reptilia). Direction 54

Dasypeltis Wagler 1830, Naturl. Syst. Amph.: 178 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Coluber scaber Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 223) (Reptilia). Opinion 387

Dasypoda Latreille 1802, Histoire naturelle des fourmis ..., p. 424 (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Blanchard 1840, Hyménoptères. In Castelnau, F.L.N. de Laporte, Histoire naturelle des insectes, vol. 3, p. 414: Andrena hirtipes Fabricius 1793) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1926 

DASYPODAIDAE Börner 1919, Biologisches Zentralblatt, 39(4): 180 (type genus: Dasypoda Latreille 1802), spelling emended from DASYPODIDAE by the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Dasypoda Latreille 1802 is DASYPODA- (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1926 

DASYPODIDAE Börner 1919, Biologisches Zentralblatt, 39(4): 180, spelling emended to DASYPODAIDAE following the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Dasypoda Latreille 1802 is DASYPODA- (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1926 

DASYPODIDAE Gray 1821, London Medical Repository, Monthly Journal and Review, 15(1): 305 (type genus: Dasypus Linnaeus 1758) (Mammalia, Xenarthra). Opinion 1926

Dasyprocta Illiger 1811, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium: 93 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Thomas 1903 (Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (7)12: 464) under Opinion 6: Mus aguti Linnaeus 1766, Systema Naturae, Ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1, p. 80) (Mammalia). Opinion 91, Direction 24

Dasyprocta Lund 1840, Écho Monde Savant, 1840: 191 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dasyprocta Illiger 1811). Direction 24

Dasypus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 50 (gender: masculine) (type species, by Linnaean tautonymy: Dasypus novemcinctus Linnaeus 1758) (Mammalia, Xenarthra). Opinion 1926

Datames Simon 1879, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (5)9: 133 (a junior homonym of Datames Stål 1875) (Arachnida). Opinion 2050

dauci Fabricius 1775 [originally in Aphis], Entomol. Syst.: 737 (valid name at the date of Opinion 646 of the type species of Semiaphis Van der Goot 1913) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 646  

dauuricus Sundevall 1842 [originally in Erinaceus], K. svenska Vetenskaps Akad. Handl., for 1841: 237, ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over the specific name sibiricus Erxleben 1777, as published in the binomen Erinaceus sibiricus, whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Mammalia). Opinion 1243

Davaenaea Cohn 1900, Zool. Anz., 23: 92 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Davainea Blanchard & Railliet 1891). Direction 76 

Davaenea Cohn 1899, Zbl. Bakt. (Abt. 1), 25: 419 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Davainea Blanchard & Railliet 1891). Direction 76

Davainaea Diamare 1893, Boll. Soc. Nat. Napoli, (1)7: 11 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Davainea Blanchard & Railliet 1891). Direction 76

Davainea Blanchard & Railliet 1891, Mém. Soc. zool. France, 4: 420, 428 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Stiles & Hassall 1896 (Bull. U.S. Bur. Anim. Ind., 12: 46): Taenia proglottina Davaine 1860, Traité Entozool., (ed. 1): xxxix-xl, figs. 5, 13) (Cestoda). Opinion 84, Direction 76  

davainei (correction of davainii) Bastian 1865 [originally in Tylenchus], Trans. linn. Soc. London, 25(2): 126 (specific name of the type species of Tylenchus Bastian 1865) (Nematoda). Opinion 341

Davainia Cohn 1899, Zbl. Bakt. (Abt. 1), 25: 415, 419 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Davainea Blanchard & Railliet 1891). Direction 76

davainii Bastian 1865 [originally in Tylenchus], Trans. linn. Soc. London, 25(2): 126 (an incorrect original spelling for davainei Bastian 1865 [originally in Tylenchus]). Opinion 341