International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

Xa

Xaiva MacLeay 1838, in Smith’s Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. (Invert.): 62 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Xaiva pulchella MacLeay 1838, in Smith’s Illustr. Zool. S. Afr. (Invert.): 62, valid name: Portunus biguttatus Risso 1816) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 712 

XANCIDAE Woodring 1928, Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, No. 385: 250-252 (type genus: Xancus [Röding] 1798) (invalid (i) because the name of the type genus has been suppressed under the plenary power and (ii) because it is a junior objective synonym of TURBINELLIDAE Swainson 1840). Opinion 489

Xancus [Röding] 1798, Mus. bolten., 2: 134 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 489

Xanthasia White 1846, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 18: 176 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Xanthasia murigera White 1846, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., 18: 177) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 85, Direction 37 

Xanthia Fairmaire 1893, Ann. Soc. entomol. France, 62: 31 (a junior homonym of Xanthia Ochsenheimer 1816). Opinion 789 

Xanthia Hübner 1808, Erste Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett.: 4 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 789 

XANTHIDAE MacLeay 1838, in Smith, Illustrations Zoology South Africa (Invertebratae): 59 (type genus: Xantho [Leach 1814]) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 423

Xantho [Leach 1814], in Brewster’s Edinburgh Ency., 7(2): 430 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Cancer incisus [Leach 1814], in Brewster’s Edinburgh Ency., 7(2): 391) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 423

Xantho Dutrochet 1819, Bull. Sci. Soc. philomat. Paris, 1819: 155 (a junior homonym of Xantho [Leach 1814]). Opinion 423

Xanthocastnia Houlbert 1918, in Oberthur, Etudes Lépidopt. comp., 15: 257 (gender: feminine) (type species, by original designation: Papilio evalthe Fabricius 1775, Syst. Entomol.: 480) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 620

Xanthodius Stimpson 1859, Ann. Lyceum nat. Hist. New York, 7: 52 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Xanthodius sternberghii Stimpson 1859, Ann. Lyceum nat. Hist. New York, 7: 52) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 85, Direction 37

XANTHOLININI Erichson 1839, Genera et species staphylinorum insectorum coleopterorum familiae, part 1, p. 28 (type genus: Xantholinus Dejean 1821), ruled under the plenary power that this name and other family-group names based on Xantholinus are to be given precedence over AGRODINI Nordmann 1837 and GYROHYPNINI Kirby 1837 and other family-group names based on Agrodes Nordmann 1837 and Gyrohypnus Samouelle 1819 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1851

Xantholinus Dejean 1821, ex Dahl, Cat. coll. coleopt. Dejean: 23 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Staphylinus linearis Olivier 1794, Entomologie, hist. nat. Ins., 3(42): 19, pl. 4, fig. 38) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1250

Xanthus Agassiz 1843, Nomencl. Zool. (Crust.): 28 (an unjustified emendation of Xantho [Leach 1814]). Opinion 423

xanthus Linnaeus 1767 [originally in Papilio], Systema Naturae, Ed. 12, vol. 1, part 2, p. 751 (an incorrect original spelling for xuthus Linnaeus 1767 [originally in Papilio]). Opinion 286