International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS

taxa names:

Dr

dracaena Linnaeus 1766 [originally in Lacerta], Systema Naturae, Ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1, p. 360 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 540

Draco Gouan 1770, Hist. Pisc.: 117 (a nomen nudum). Direction 56

Draco Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 199 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Draco volans Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 199) (Reptilia). Opinion 75 

Draco Oken 1816, Lehrb. Naturgesch., 3 (Zool.) (2): 273 (a junior homonym of Draco Linnaeus 1758, and included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Direction 56 

draco Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Trachinus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 250 (specific name of the type species of Trachinus Linnaeus 1758) (Osteichthyes). Direction 57

Draconculus Penel 1904, Filaires Sang de l’Homme: 61 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dracunculus Reichard 1759). Direction 102 

DRACUNCULIDAE Stiles 1907, Bull. hyg. Lab. Washington, 34: 38, 39 (type genus: Dracunculus Reichard 1759) (Nematoda). Direction 102

Dracunculus Krøyer [1838-1840], Danmarks Fiske, 1 (No. 8): 1 (a junior homonym of Dracunculus Reichard 1759). Direction 102

Dracunculus Reichard 1759, in Kniphof, De Pediculis: 12 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Gordius medinensis Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1. p. 647) (Nematoda). Opinion 66, Direction 102

Dracunculus Wiegmann 1834, Herpet. mex.: 14 (a junior homonym of Dracunculus Reichard 1759). Direction 102

dracunculus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Callionymus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 249 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Osteichthyes, Perciformes). Opinion 1658

Dracuncuus Moniez 1896, Traité Parasitol.: 317 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dracunculus Reichard 1759). Direction 102 

Drakella Bergroth 1922, Ann. Soc. entomol. Belgique, 62: 152 (a junior objective synonym of Fenestrella Osborn & Drake 1916). Opinion 622 

draparnaldi Beck 1837 [originally in Helix], Index Moll. Mus. Ch. Fred. (1): 6, Spec. nov. 7 (an incorrect original spelling for draparnaudi Beck 1837 [originally in Helix]). Opinion 336, Opinion 1924

draparnaldi Cuvier 1816 [originally in Helix], Le règne animal distribué d’après son organisation ..., vol. 2, p. 405, footnote 5 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Gastropoda). Opinion 1924  

draparnaudi (emendation of draparnaldi) Beck 1837 [originally in Helix], Index Moll. Mus. Ch. Fred. (1): 6, Spec. nov. 7 (Gastropoda). Opinion 336, Opinion 1924

draparnaudi Sheppard 1823 [originally in Helix], Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 14: 158, and all uses of that name in combination with Helix prior to the publication of Helix draparnaldi Beck 1837 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Gastropoda). Opinion 1924  

Drasterius Eschscholtz 1829, in Thon, Entomologisches Archiv, vol. 2, part 1, p. 33 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Westwood 1840, Synopsis of the Genera of British Insects, p. 26: Elater bimaculatus Rossi 1790) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1441 

Dreisena Clessin 1880, Malak. Bl. (n.f.), 2: 148 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 2: 25 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Mytulus [ex err. pro Mytilus] polymorphus Pallas 1771, Reise russ. Reichs., 1: 478) (Bivalvia). Opinion 351  

Dreissena Dumortier 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 2: 44-47 (an emendation of Driessena van Beneden 1835, published in the same year as the justified emendation of the same name to the same form by van Beneden). Opinion 351  

DREISSENADAE Gray 1840, in Turton, Manual land & freshwater Shells brit. Islands (ed. 2): 277 (type genus: Dreissena van Beneden 1835) (an incorrect original spelling for DREISSENIDAE Gray 1840). Direction 41

Dreissencia Gillet 1922, Bull. Soc. Sci. Hist. nat. Yonne, 75(2): 84 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Dreissenia Bronn 1848, Index palaeont., 1(1): 437 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

DREISSENIDAE (correction by Gray 1847 (Proc. zool. Soc. London, 15: 199) of DREISSENADAE) Gray 1840, in Turton, Manual land & freshwater Shells brit. Islands (ed. 2): 277 (type genus: Dreissena van Beneden 1835) (Bivalvia). Direction 41

Dreissensa Moquin-Tandon 1856, Hist. nat. Moll. France, 2: 597, 598 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Dreissensia Bronn 1862, Klass. Ordn. Thierr., 3(1): 352, 360, 364, 388, 390, 406, 436, 471, 478, 486, 499, 508 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

DREISSENSIINAE Fischer 1887, Man. Conchyl.: 965 (type genus: Dreissena van Beneden 1835) (an incorrect subsequent spelling for DREISSENIDAE (correction of DREISSENADAE) Gray 1840). Direction 41

Dreissina Sowerby 1839, Conch. Manual (ed. 1): 40, 121 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

Dreistena Boué 1840, Turquie d’Eur., 1: 477 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Drepana Schrank 1802, Fauna boica, 2(2): 155 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Westwood 1840 (Introd. mod. Classif. Ins., Synopsis: 104): Phalaena falcataria Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 519) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 610  

Drepane Cuvier 1831, in Cuvier & Valenciennes, Hist. nat. Poissons, 7: 132 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Jordan 1917 (Genera of Fishes, 1: 136): Chaetodon punctatus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 273) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 1046 

DREPANEIDAE Gill 1872, Smithson. misc. Coll., 1874, 11(247): 8 (type genus: Drepane Cuvier 1831) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 1046

Drepanella (emendation under the plenary power of Depranella) Ulrich 1890, J. Cincinnati Soc. nat. Hist.: 117, 118 (gender: feminine) (type species, by original designation: Depranella [sic] crassinoda Ulrich 1890, J. Cincinnati Soc. nat. Hist.: 118, pl. 8, figs. la, b, c) (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Opinion 591  

DREPANELLINAE Ulrich & Bassler 1923, Maryland geol. Surv., Silurian Vol.: 308 (type genus: Drepanella Ulrich 1890) (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Opinion 591  

Drepania Hübner [1819], Verz. bekannt. Schmett., (10): 140 (an unjustified emendation of Drepana Schrank 1802). Opinion 610  

Drepanichthys Bonaparte 1831, Giorn. Acad. Sci. Lett. Arti., 52: 172 (a junior objective synonym of Drepane Cuvier 1831). Opinion 1046

DREPANIDAE (correction of DREPANULIDI) Boisduval [Nov. 1828], Europ. Lép. Index méth.: 55 (type genus: Drepana Schrank 1802) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 610  

DREPANIDAE Bonaparte 1853, Compte rendu Séances Acad. Sci. Paris, 37(18): 644 (type genus: Drepanis Temminck 1820) (an incorrect subsequent spelling for DREPANIDIDAE Cabanis 1847 and a junior homonym of DREPANIDAE Boisduval [1828 (Nov.)]). Opinion 1046 

DREPANIDAE Gill 1872, Smithson. misc. Coll., 1874, 11(247): 8 (type genus: Drepane Cuvier 1831) (an incorrect original spelling for DREPANEIDAE Gill 1872 and a junior homonym of DREPANIDAE Boisduval [1828 (Nov.)]). Opinion 1046  

DREPANIDAE Sushkin 1929, Verh. VI int. Ornith. Kongr., Copenhagen: 375 (type genus: Drepanis Temminck 1820) (an unjustified emendation of DREPANIDIDAE Gadow 1891). Opinion 610 

DREPANIDIDAE Cabanis 1847, Arch. Naturges., Jahrg. 1: 325 (type genus: Drepanis Temminck 1820) (Aves). Opinion 610, Opinion 1046  

DREPANIDIDAE Gadow 1891, in Wilson & Evans, Aves Hawaiienses (2): 235 (type genus: Drepanis Temminck 1820) (a subsequent usage of DREPANIDIDAE Cabanis 1847). Opinion 1046

DREPANIIDAE Mayr 1943, Condor, 45: 46 (type genus: Drepanis Temminck 1820) (an unjustified emendation of DREPANIDIDAE Gadow 1891). Opinion 610  

DREPANINAE Cabanis 1847, Arch. für Naturges., 1: 325 (type genus: Drepanis Temminck 1820) (an incorrect original spelling for DREPANIDIDAE Cabanis 1847 and a junior homonym of DREPANIDAE Boisduval [1828 (Nov.)]). Opinion 1046  

Drepanis Brisson 1760, Ornithologie, 2: 506 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 610

Drepanis Rafinesque 1815, Analyse Nature: 69 (a nomen nudum). Opinion 610  

Drepanis Temminck 1820, Manuel Ornithol. (ed. 2), 1: lxxvi (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Gray 1840 (List Genera Birds: 12): Certhia pacifica Gmelin 1788, in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, vol. 1, part 2, p. 470) (Aves). Opinion 610 

Drepanites Benett 1831, A catalogue of the organic remains of the County of Wilts., p. 3, pl. 16, and all uses of the name prior to the publication of Drepanites Mojsisovics 1893 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea). Opinion 1609

Drepanites Mojsisovics 1893, Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt, 6(2): 495 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Diener 1915, Cephalopoda triadica. In Frech (Ed.), Fossilium catalogus. 1. Animalia. (8), p. 129: Arpadites (Drepanites) hyatti Mojsisovics 1893) (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea). Opinion 1609  

DREPANULIDI Boisduval [1828 (Nov.)], Europ. Lép. Index méth.: 55 (type genus: Drepana Schrank 1802) (an incorrect original spelling for DREPANIDAE Boisduval [1828]). Opinion 610

dresdensis Herbst 1792 [originally in Dorkatoma], Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten. Der Käfer, part 4, p. 104 (specific name of the type species of Dorcatoma Herbst 1792) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1810  

Dresseina Conrad 1874, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1874: 29 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Dressena Germain 1931, Faune France, 22: 775 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

Dreysseina Munier-Chalmas 1864, Bull. Soc. linn. Normandie, 8: 97 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Dreyssena Philippi 1853, Handb. Conchyliol. Malacozool.: 364 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

Dreyssensia Hébert & Munier-Chalmas 1877, C.R.. Acad. Sci., Paris, 85: 126 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Dreyssentia Bernard 1895, Elém. Paléontol.: 561 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

Driessena van Beneden 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 2: 25 (an incorrect original spelling for Dreissena van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351

Driessenia van Beneden 1835, Bull. Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 2: Index iii, x (an incorrect original spelling for Dreissena van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351 

Driessensia Dewalque 1863, Bull. Soc. géol. France, (2)20: 797 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Dreissena (emendation of Driessena) van Beneden 1835). Opinion 351  

Drimo Risso 1826, Hist. nat. princip. Prod. Europ. mérid., 5: 70 (a junior objective synonym of Gnathophyllum Latreille 1819). Opinion 470  

DRIMOIDAE Ortman 1896, Zool. Jahrb., Jena (Syst.), 9: 425 (type genus: Drimo Risso 1826) (a junior objective synonym of GNATHOPHYLLIDAE Dana 1852, the respective type genera of these two families having the same nominal species as type species). Opinion 470

drøbachiensis Müller 1776 [originally in Echinus], Zool. dan. Prodr.: 235 (specific name of the type species of Strongylocentrotus Brandt 1835) (Echinoidea). Opinion 208

Dromas Paykull 1805, K. Vetensk.-Akad. Nya Handl., Stockholm, 26(3): 182 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Dromas ardeola Paykull 1805, K. Vetensk.-Akad. Nya Handl., Stockholm, 26(3): 182, 188, pl. 8) (Aves). Opinion 67 

Dromia Fabricius 1798, Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 320, 359 (a junior homonym of Dromia Weber 1795). Opinion 688  

Dromia Weber 1795, Nomencl. entomol. Syst. Fabr.: 92 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Cancer personatus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 628, as interpreted by the neotype designated by Holthuis 1962 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 19: 53, pl. 3)) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 688

dromia Fabricius 1781 [originally in Cancer], Spec. Ins., 1: 501 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for dormia Linnaeus 1763 [originally in Cancer]). Opinion 688 

DROMIACEA de Haan [1833], in Siebold, Fauna japon. (Crust.) (1): ix (type genus: Dromia Weber 1795) (an incorrect original spelling for DROMIIDAE de Haan [1833]). Opinion 688

dromiaeformis De Haan 1839 [originally in Trichia], Fauna Japonica, fasc. 4, pl. 29, fig. 4; pl. H (specific name of the type species of Trichia De Haan 1839) (Brachyura). Opinion 2079

Dromidiopsis Borradaile 1900, Proc. zool. Soc. London, 1900: 572 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Dromia australiensis Haswell 1882, Proc. linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 6(4): 755) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 688  

DROMIENS Milne Edwards 1837, in Roret’s Suites à Buffon, Hist. nat. Crust., 2: 168 (type genus: Dromia Weber 1795) (a vernacular name). Opinion 688  

DROMIIDAE (correction of DROMIACEA) de Haan [1833], in Siebold, Fauna japon. (Crust.) (1): ix (type genus: Dromia Weber 1795) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 688  

DROMIIDAE Bonelli 1810, Observations entomologiques. Première Partie, tabula synoptica, unnumbered page, an incorrect original spelling of DROMIUSIDAE by the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Dromius Bonelli 1810 is DROMIUS- (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2149  

Dromius Bonelli 1810, Observations entomologiques. Première Partie, tabula synoptica, unnumbered page (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Hope 1838, The Coleopterist’s Manual, part 2, p. 63: Carabus quadrimaculatus Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2149

DROMIUSIDAE Bonelli 1810, Observations entomologiques. Première Partie, tabula synoptica, unnumbered page (type genus: Dromius Bonelli 1810), spelling emended from DROMIIDAE by the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Dromius is DROMIUS- (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2149

Dromophis Peters 1869, Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1869: 447 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Dendrophis praeornata Schlegel 1837) (Reptilia, Serpentes). Opinion 1384

Drosophila Fallén 1823 (Insecta, Diptera): Drosophila funebris Fabricius 1787 is maintained as the type species. ICZN 2010: Opinion 2245 (Case 3407)

drummondi Kirby 1837 [originally in Buprestis], in Richardson, (Ed.), Fauna Boreali-Americana, part 4, p. 57, ruled under the plenary power to be treated as not invalid by reason of having been originally published as a junior primary homonym of Buprestis drummondi Laporte & Gory 1836 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2008

drummondi Laporte & Gory [originally in Buprestis] 1836, Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coléoptères, vol. 1, p. 37 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2008

Drupella Thiele 1925, Wiss. Ergebnisse deutsch. Tiefsee-Expedition ... ‘Valdivia’, 1898-1899, Gastropoda, Theil II: 171 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Purpura elata Blainville 1832, Nouv. Ann. Mus. d’Hist. nat. Paris, 1(2): 207, valid name: Drupa cornus [Röding] 1798) (Gastropoda). Opinion 1154

dryados Gmelin 1790 [originally in Curculio], in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, vol. 1, part 4, p. 1748, the oldest available synonym of Curculio quercus Fabricius 1787, rejected because of primary homonymy (specific name of the type species of Coeliodes Schönherr 1837) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1529

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

Dryinus Latreille 1804, Nouv. Dict. Hist. nat., 24 (Tab.): 176 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Dryinus formicarius Latreille [1804-1805], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 13: 228) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 153

Dryinus Merrem 1820, Tent. Syst. Amph.: 15, 136 (a junior homonym of Dryinus Latreille [1804], and a junior objective synonym of Ahaetulla Link 1807). Opinion 524 

Dryocoetes Eichhoff 1864, Berliner entomol. Zeitschr., 8: 38, 39 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Hopkins 1914 (Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 48: 121): Bostrichus autographus Ratzeburg 1837, Die Forst-lnsecten ..., Erster Theil, Die Käfer: 194, 195) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1145

Dryophis Dalman 1823, Anat. Entomol.: 7 (a junior objective synonym of Ahaetulla Link 1807). Opinion 524 

Dryophthorus Germar 1824, Insectorum, species novae aut minus cognitae, descriptionibus illustratae, vol. 1, Coleoptera, p. 302 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Curculio lymexylon Fabricius 1792, a junior subjective synonym of Curculio corticalis Paykull 1792) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1448

Dryptosauridae Marsh 1890 (Therapoda). ICZN 2024: Opinion 2511