International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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quadrangularis Leydig 1860 [originally in Lynceus], Naturgesch. Daphniden: 221, pl. VIII, fig. 59 (a junior primary homonym of quadrangularis Müller 1776 [originally in Lynceus]). Opinion 532

quadrangularis Mülle 1776 [originally in Lynceus], Zool. dan. Prodr.: 72, 199, pl. IX, figs. 1-3 (specific name of the type species of Alona Baird 1843) (Crustacea, Branchiopoda). Opinion 532  

quadratus Fabricius 1787 [originally in Cancer], Mantissa Ins., 1: 315 (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 262

quadratus Fabricius 1793 [originally in Cancer], junior primary homonym of Cancer quadratus Fabricius 1787 (Opinion 13)

quadratus Meuschen 1778 [originally in Cancer], Mus. gronov.: 84 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 262 

quadratus Meuschen 1781 [originally in Cancer], Index to Gronovius’ Zoophylac. gronov. (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 262

quadratus Milne Edwards 1880 [originally in Cymonomus], Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 8(1): 26 (specific name of the type species of Cymonomus Milne Edwards 1880) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 712

quadratus Fabricius 1798 [originally in Lygaeus], Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 232, as interpreted under the plenary power by the neotype designated by Scudder & Wagner 1964 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 21: 359) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 798

Quadrella Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 2: 150 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592

quadricincta Fabricius [1777] [originally in Apis], Genera insectorum ..., p. 247 (specific name of the type species of Halictus Latreille 1804) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1713  

quadricollis Gistel 1848 [originally in Nicrophorus], Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere Schulen, p. 190, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over Nicrophorus olidus Matthews 1888 whenever the two are considered to be synonyms (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2141 

quadricolor Barnard 1927 [originally in Hervia], Ann. S. Afr. Mus., 25: 203 (specific name of the type species of Godiva Macnae 1954) (Gastropoda). Opinion 778  

quadricolor Rafinesque 1814 [originally in Peneus], Précis Découv. Trav. somiolog.: 22 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 522 

quadricornis Montagu 1815 [originally in Doris], Trans. linn. Soc. London, 11: 17 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1014

quadricornis Fabricius 1798 [originally in Palinurus], Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 401 (a junior objective synonym of elephas Fabricius 1787 [originally in Astacus], and a junior homonym of quadricornis, Pallinurus, Weber 1795). Opinion 519 

quadricornis Weber 1795 [originally in Pallinurus], Nomencl. entomol. Syst. Fabr.: 94 (a junior objective synonym of elephas Fabricius 1787 [originally in Astacus]). Opinion 519

quadridens Müller 1774 [originally in Helix], Verm. terrestr. fluviat. Hist., 2: 107 (Gastropoda). Opinion 336

quadridens Fabricius 1781 [originally in Scarabaeus], Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus, p. 11, as defined by the lectotype designated by Krell (2003), Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 60: 306, smaller of two specimens of the Banks collection in the Natural History Museum, London, labelled ‘LECTOTYPUS’ (specific name of the type species of Bolboceras Kirby 1819) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2138

quadridens Milne Edwards 1869 [originally in Thalamitoides], Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 5: 147 (specific name of the type species of Thalamitoides Milne Edwards 1869) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36

quadridentata Baird 1850 [originally in Cythere], The natural history of British Entomostraca, London (Ray Society): 173 (specific name of the type species of Celtia Neale 1973) (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Opinion 1173 

quadridentata Latreille [1828] [originally in Melia], Ency. méth., 10 (Ins.): 706 (specific name of the type species of Pseudorhombila Milne Edwards 1837) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36 

quadridentatus Menge 1851 [originally in Lithobius], Neueste Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig, 4(2): 12 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Chilopoda). Opinion 1816

quadrifaria Sulzer 1776 [originally in Phalaena], Abgek. Gesch. Ins. Linn., 1: 162 (valid name at the date of Opinion 995 of the type species of Psodos Treitschke 1825) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 995

quadrimaculatus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Carabus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 416 (specific name of the type species of Dromius Bonelli 1810) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2149

quadrimaculatus Houttuyn [1787] [originally in Cerambyx], Anim. Mus. Houtt. Index: 73 (included in a work suppressed under the plenary power for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 380

quadrimucronatus Murchison 1839 [originally in Paradoxides], Silurian System: 658, pl. 14, fig. 10, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the specific name coronata Salter 1853, as published in the binomen Acidaspis coronata, whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Trilobita). Opinion 1223

quadripartita Claparède & Lachmann 1859 [originally in Podophrya], Mémoires de l’Institut National Génevois, 6: 382 (specific name of the type species of Tokophrya Bütschli 1889) (Ciliophora, Suctoria). Opinion 1778

quadriplicata Schmidt 1868 [originally in Clausilia] (currently Quadriplicata quadriplicata; Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Clausiliidae): conserved by suppression of the senior homonym Clausilia ventricosa var. quadriplicata Fitzinger 1833. ICZN 2022: Opinion 2484 (Case 3778) 

quadriplicata Fitzinger 1833 [originally in Clausilia ventricosa var.] suppressed by plenary power. ICZN 2022: Opinion 2484 (Case 3778) 

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

quadripunctata Fabricius 1801 [originally in Crioceris], Systema Eleutheratorum. Tomus II. Kiliae, p. 460 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2271 

quadripunctata Olivier 1808 [originally in Crioceris], Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Coléoptères. Tome sixième, Paris, Chez Desray, p. 731, ruled under the plenary power not to be invalid by reason of being a junior primary homonym of Crioceris quadripunctata Fabricius 1801 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2271

quadripunctatus Villers 1789 [originally in Cimex], Linn. Entomol.: 535 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1326

quadripunctatus Olivier 1792 [originally in Erotylus], Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des insectes, vol. 6, p. 437 (specific name of the type species of Ischyrus Lacordaire 1842) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1824

quadripunctatus Fabricius 1794 [originally in Lygaeus], Entomol. syst., 4: 172 (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1326 

quadristriata Gmelin 1790 [originally in Cicada], in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, p. 2111 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Auchenorrhyncha). Opinion 1935

quinquetuberculata Retzius 1783 [originally in Phalaena ziczac] (Arthropoda). ICZN 2014: Opinion 2333

quadrituberculatus Fabricius 1787 [originally in Curculio], Mantissa Insectorum, vol. 1, p. 100 (specific name of the type species of Phytobius Dejean 1835) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1529  

quadrupeda Custis 1807 [originally in Syren], in King (Ed.), An account of the Red River, in Louisiana, drawn up from the returns of Messrs. Freeman & Custis, to the War Office of the United States, who explored the same, in the year 1806, p. 60 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Amphibia, Caudata). Opinion 1733

quarlesi Ouwens 1910 [originally in Anoa], Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes néerl., 38: 1 (Mammalia). Opinion 1349 

quartanae Lewkowicz 1897 [originally in Haemosporidium], Zbl. Bakt. (Abt. 1), 21(4): 132 (published as a technical designation, not as a specific name, and therefore possesses no status under the Code). Opinion 283

quartanae Celli & Sanfelice 1891 [originally in Plasmodium malariae], Ann. Ist. Igiene sper. Univ. Roma (n.s.), 1: 61 (published as a technical designation, not as a specific name, and therefore possesses no status under the Code). Opinion 283 

quartanae Kruse 1892 [originally in Plasmodium malariae], Hyg. Rdschr., 2: 466 (published as a technical designation, not as a specific name, and therefore possesses no status under the Code). Opinion 283

quater-radiatus Gmelin 1799 [originally in Coluber], Der Naturforscher, Halle, 28: 169, tab. 3, fig. 1 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 642

quatuordecimlaminatus Storer 1839 [originally in Echeneis], Fishes of Massachusetts: 155, in: Reports on the Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts, Boston (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1033

quatuorlineatus Lacepède 1789 [originally in Coluber], Hist. nat. Quad. ovip. Serpens, 2: 82 (name of a species of which Coluber sauromates Pallas [1814] is considered to be a subspecies) (Reptilia). Opinion 490

QUEDIINI Kraatz [1857], in Erichson, Naturgeschichte der Insekten Deutschlands, Abteilung 1 (Insecta, Coleoptera), vol. 2, p. 473 (type genus: Quedius Stephens 1829), ruled under the plenary power that this name and other family-group names based on Quedius are to be given precedence over PLATYCNEMINI Nordmann 1837 and other family-group names based on Platycnemus Nordmann 1837 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1851

Quedius Stephens 1829, The nomenclature of British insects; being a compendious list of such species as are contained in the Systematic Catalogue of British insects, and forming a guide to their classification ..., p. 22 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Staphylinus levicollis Brullé 1832) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1851

Quenstedioceras Hyatt 1877, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 18: 390 (an incorrect original spelling for Quenstedtoceras Hyatt 1877). Opinion 324

Quenstedticeras Teisseyre 1889, Neues Jahrb. Min., Beil.-Band, 6: 148 (an unjustified emendation of the defective form Quenstedioceras, in which the name Quenstedtoceras Hyatt 1877, was originally published). Opinion 324 

Quenstedtoceras (emendation of Quenstedioceras) Hyatt 1877, Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist., 18: 391 (gender: neuter) (type species, by monotypy: Ammonites leachi Sowerby 1819, Min. Conch., 3: 73, pl. 242, fig. 4) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 324  

quercus Fabricius 1777 [originally in Cicada], Gen. Ins., Chilonii: 298 (specific name of the type species of Typhlocyba Germar 1833) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 605

querquedulae Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Pediculus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 612, as interpreted by the neotype designated by Clay & Hopkins 1950 (Bull. Brit. Mus. (nat. Hist.) Entomol., 1: 244) (Insecta, Mallophaga). Opinion 627

Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterosauria). ICZN 2019: Opinion 2440 

quinquecincta Fabricius 1793 [originally in Scolia], Entomol. Syst., 2: 234 (specific name of the type species of Heterelis Costa 1887) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1293

quinquefaria Say [1826] [originally in Scutella], J. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 228 (specific name of the type species of Mortonella Pomel 1883) (Echinoidea). Opinion 358  

quinqueloba Goldfuss 1831 [originally in Asterias], Petref. German., 1: 209, pl. 63, fig. 5, subfigs. ‘u’, ‘t’, as interpreted by the lectotype designated under the plenary power (specific name of the type species of Crateraster Spencer 1913) (Asteroidea). Opinion 331

Quinqueloculina d’Orbigny 1826, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris, 7(27): 301 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Parker & Jones 1859 (Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3)3: 480): Serpula seminulum Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 786, as interpreted by the neotype designated by Loeblich & Tappan 1962 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 19: 123)) (Rhizopoda). Opinion 692

QUINQUELOCULININAE Cushman 1917, Bull. U.S. nat. Mus., 71(6): 41 (type genus: Quinqueloculina d’Orbigny 1826) (Rhizopoda). Opinion 692  

quinquemaculata Dufour 1820 [originally in Uroctea], Annales générales des Sciences Physiques, Bruxelles, 5: 200 (specific name of the type species of Uroctea Dufour 1820) (Cumacea). Opinion 1593 

quinquespinosus Spinola 1808 [originally in Rophites], Insectorum Liguriae species novae aut rariores, vol. 2, p. 72 (specific name of the type species of Rophites Spinola 1808) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1713

Quinquevalvula Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 2: 154 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592  

quinquiesperforatus Leske 1778 [originally in Echinodiscus], Addit. J.T. Klein Nat. Disp. Echin.: 197 (specific name of the type species of Mellita Agassiz 1841) (Echinoidea). Opinion 393

quoll Zimmermann 1783 [originally in Mustela], Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, vol. 3, p. 181 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Mammalia, Marsupialia). Opinion 1460

quotidianae Celli & Sanfelice 1891 [originally in Plasmodium malariae], Ann. Ist. Igiene sper. Univ. Roma (n.s.), 1: 61 (published as a technical designation, not as a specific name, and therefore possesses no status under the Code). Opinion 283