International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

Ur

Urania [Illiger] 1807, Allgem. Lit. Ztg., Halle (Jena), 1807 (No. 2): 1181 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 232 

Urania Fabricius 1807, Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger), 6: 279 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Latreille 1810 (Consid. gén. Anim. Crust. Arach. Ins.: 440, 356): Papilio leilus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 462) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 232  

Uranoscopus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 250 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 250) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 75

Uratelornis Rothschild 1895, Novit. zool., 2: 479 (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation through Article 68b(i): Uratelornis chimaera Rothschild 1895, Novit. zool., 2: 479) (Aves). Opinion 67

Urbanus Hübner [1806], Tentamen: [1] (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 278

URECHIDAE Fisher & MacGinitie 1928, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (10)1: 200 (type genus: Urechis Seitz 1907) (Echiuroidea). Opinion 941  

Urechis Seitz 1907, Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Anat., 24: 323 (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Echiurus chilensis Diesing 1859, SitzBer. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 37: 778) (Echiuroidea). Opinion 941  

URIECHINAE Cope 1893, Amer. Nat.: 480 (type genus: Uriechis Peters 1854) ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over APARALLACTINAE Bourgeois 1968 whenever Uriechis Peters 1854 and Aparallactus Smith 1849 are placed in the same family-group taxon (Reptilia). Opinion 1201

Uriechis Peters 1854, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 623 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Uriechis lunulatus Peters 1854, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin: 623) (Reptilia). Opinion 1201 

urii Fleming 1828 [originally in Cidaris], Hist. brit. Anim.: 478 (specific name of the type species of Archaeocidaris McCoy 1844) (Echinoidea). Opinion 370 

URINATORES Vieillot 1818, Nouv. Dict. Hist. nat., 27: 120 (type genus: Urinator Lacepède 1799) (an incorrect original spelling for URINATORIDAE Vieillot 1818). Direction 75

URINATORIDAE (correction by Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway 1884 (Hist. N. Amer. Birds, Waterbirds, 2: 444) of URINATORES) Vieillot 1818, Nouv. Dict. Hist. nat., 27: 120 (type genus: Urinator Lacepède 1799) (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Direction 75

urna Grube & Wagener 1852 [originally in Amphiptyches], in Wagener, Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wiss. Med., 1852: 543-554, pls. 14, 15 (specific name of the type species of Amphiptyches Wagener 1852) (Cestoda). Opinion 913

Urocerus Geoffroy 1762, Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, vol. 2, p. 264 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent monotypy by Fourcroy 1785, Entomologia Parisiensis, vol. 2, p. 363: Ichneumon gigas Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1754

Uroctea Dufour 1820, Annales générales des Sciences Physiques, Bruxelles, 5: 198 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Uroctea quinquemaculata Dufour 1820) (Cumacea). Opinion 1593 

Urocyon Baird 1857, Mamm. N. Amer.: 121, 138 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Elliot 1901 (March) (Field. Mus. Publ. (Zool.), 2: 307): Canis virginianus Schreber [1776], Die Säugthiere, 3: 361, pl. 92B, valid name: Canis cinereoargenteus Schreber [1776]) (Mammalia). Opinion 384  

urogenitalis Baelz 1883 [originally in Amoeba], Berl. klin. Wschr., 20(16): 237 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 312  

urophasianus Bonaparte 1827 [originally in Tetrao], Zool. J., 3(10): 213 (specific name of the type species of Centrocercus Swainson [1832]) (Aves). Direction 43 

Uroplata Chevrolat 1835, in Dejean, Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean: 365 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by White 1981 (Proc. entomol. Soc. Washington, 83(4): 714): Hispa mucronata Olivier 1808, Entomologie, ou histoire naturelle des insectes ..., 6 Coléoptères: 765) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1359  

UROPLATIIDAE (correction of UROPLATIDAE) Boulenger 1884, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5)14: 119 (type genus: Uroplatus Duméril 1806) (Reptilia). Opinion 1359 

UROPLATINI Leng 1920, Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico: 303 (type genus: Uroplata Chevrolat 1835) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1359 

Uroplatus Duméril 1806, Zoologie analytique, ou méthode naturelle de classification des animaux: 80 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Stellio fimbriatus Schneider 1792, Amphibiorum physiologiae specimen alterum: 32) (Reptilia). Opinion 1359

ursina Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Phoca], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 37 (specific name of the type species of Callorhinus Gray 1859) (Mammalia, Pinnipedia). Opinion 1962  

ursinus Shaw 1791 [originally in Bradypus], Nat. Miscell., 2: pls. 58, 59 (valid name at the date of Opinion 384 of the type species of Melursus Meyer 1793) (Mammalia). Opinion 384

Ursus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 47 (gender: masculine) (type species, by Linnaean tautonymy: Ursus arctos Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 47) (Mammalia). Opinion 75 

ursus Dana 1852 [originally in Arctus], Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 14 (a junior objective synonym of arctus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Cancer]). Opinion 519

ursusmajor Herbst 1793 [originally in Cancer (Astacus)], Versuch Naturgesch. Krabben Krebse, 2(3): 82, as interpreted by the lectotype designated by Holthuis 1956 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 12: 111) (a junior objective synonym of antarcticus Lund 1793 [originally in Scyllarus]). Opinion 519

ursusminor Herbst 1793 [originally in Cancer (Astacus)], Versuch Naturgesch. Krabben Krebse, 2(3): 83, as interpreted by the lectotype designated by Holthuis 1956 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 12: 112) (a junior objective synonym of arctus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Cancer]). Opinion 519

urticae Fabricius 1775 [originally in Cimex], Syst. Entomol.: 231 (specific name of the type species of Heterogaster Schilling 1829) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 679

urticae Fabricius 1792 [originally in Dermestes], Entomologia Systematica, vol. 1, part 1, p. 235 (specific name of the type species of Brachypterus Kugelann 1794) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1916

urticae Cooper 1955 [originally in Heterodera], A preliminary key to British species of Heterodera for use in soil examination, in: Soil Zoology, Proceedings of the University of Nottingham Second Easter School in Agricultural Science, Kevan (ed.), Butterworth, London: 279 (Nematoda). Opinion 1336

urticae Koch 1836 [originally in Tetranychus], Deut. Crust., Myr., Arach. (1): 10, as interpreted by the neotype designated by Boudreaux & Dosse 1963 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 20: 365, 366) (Arachnida). Opinion 968

urubitinga Gmelin [Falco] (specific name of the type species by subsequent designation by Gray (1841) of Morphnus Cuvier 1817) (Opinion 62)