International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS
taxa names:
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Weberides Reed 1942, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (11)9: 653 (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Phillipsia mucronata McCoy 1844, Syn. Char. Carb. Limest. Foss. Ireland: 162, pl. iv, fig. 8) (Trilobita). Opinion 352
websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle 1943 [originally in Polydora], Biological Bulletin, 85: 70, as defined by the lectotype (specimen LACM-AHF POLY 1628 collected in the mouth of Milford River, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, by J.B. Engle in 1943 and kept in the Allan Hancock Foundation Polychaete Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, described by Radashevsky 1999, Ophelia, 51(2): 107-113) designated under the plenary power, ruled under the plenary power to be treated as the specific name of a then new nominal species and not as a substitute name for Polydora caeca Webster 1879 (Polychaeta). Opinion 1974
weeksii Boulenger 1896 [originally in Ctenopoma], Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6)17: 310 (confirmed by the Commission that the Principle of Priority is to be applied to the specific name of this nominal species) (Osteichthyes, Perciformes). Opinion 1562
wenckeri Fauvel 1863 [originally in Thinobius], Catalogue des Coléoptères de France et matériaux pour servir à la faune des Coléoptères francais, p. 41 (a nomen oblitum) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2129
wesleyi Sykes 1896 [originally in Endodonta (Pterodiscus)], Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2(3): 127 (specific name of the type species of Tropidoptera Ancey 1889) (Gastropoda). Opinion 1845
Westenoceras Foerste 1924, Denison Univ. Bull. Sci. Lab. J., 20: 196, 253, 254 (ruled under the plenary power to be an incorrect original spelling for Westonoceras Foerste 1924). Opinion 593
Westonoceras (emendation under the plenary power of Westenoceras) Foerste 1924, Denison Univ. Bull. Sci. Lab. J., 20: 196, 253, 254 (gender: neuter) (type species, by original designation: Cyrtoceras manitobense Whiteaves 1890, Proc. Trans. roy. Soc. Canada, 7(4): 80) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 593
WESTONOCERATIDAE Teichert 1933, Palaeontographica, 78, Abt. A: 216 (type genus: Westonoceras Foerste 1924) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 593