International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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Ena Turton 1831, Manual land & freshwater Shells brit. Islands: 80 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Herrmannsen 1847 (Indicis Gen. Malacoz. Primordia, 1: 421): Bulimus montanus Draparnaud [1801], Tabl. Moll. terrestr. fluviat. France: 65) (Gastropoda). Opinion 475

Enarmonia (emendation of Ernarmonia) Hübner [1825], Verz. bekannt. Schmett. (24): 375 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Walsingham 1895 (Trans. entomol. Soc. London, 1895: 516): Phalaena (Tortrix) woeberiana [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775, Ankündung syst. Werkes Schmett. Wien. Gegend: 126, valid name: Phalaena formosana Scopoli 1763) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 349

ENARMONIINI Diakonoff 1953, Verh. K. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Natuurk., (2)49 (No. 3): 89, 161 (published as a name for a taxon below subfamily rank) (type genus: Enarmonia Hübner [1825]) for use by those who consider that Enarmonia Hübner and Laspeyresia Hübner [1826] belong to different family-group taxa (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Direction 28

Encarsia Foerster 1878, Verh. naturf. Ver. preuss. Rheinl., 35: 65 (gender: feminine) (type species, by original designation: Encarsia tricolor Foerster 1878, Verh. naturf. Ver. preuss. Rheinl., 35: 66) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1351

Enchelis Müller 1773, Verm. terrestr. fluviat. Hist., 1: 34 (an incorrect original spelling for Enchelys Müller 1773). Opinion 915

Enchelys Müller 1773, Verm. terrestr. fluviat. Hist., 1: 34 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Corliss & Dougherty 1967 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 24: 162): Enchelis farcimen Müller 1773, Verm. terrestr. fluviat. Hist., 1: 34) (Ciliophora). Opinion 915 

Enchytraeus Henle 1837, Arch. Anat. Phys. Wiss. Med., 1837: 74 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Enchytraeus albidus Henle 1837, Arch. Anat. Phys. Wiss. Med., 1837: 89) (Oligochaeta). Opinion 104

Enchytreus Udekem 1854, Bull. Acad. roy. Sci. Belg., 21(2): 853 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Enchytraeus Henle 1837). Direction 76  

ENCRINIDAE (correction of ENCRINIENS) Dujardin & Hupé 1862, Hist. nat. Zoophytes, Echinodermes: 161 (type genus: Encrinus Lamarck 1801) (Crinoidea). Opinion 636

ENCRINIENS Dujardin & Hupé 1862, Hist. nat. Zoophytes, Echinodermes: 161 (type genus: Encrinus Lamarck 1801) (an incorrect original spelling for ENCRINIDAE Dujardin & Hupé 1862). Opinion 636 

encrinula Lamarck 1815 [originally in Isis], Mémoires du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1: 415, as defined by the lectotype (specimen labelled ‘Isis encrinula. Lk. Mopsea verticillaris. Lamx. De La N[ouv]elle Hollande par MM Péron and Lesueur 1809’ in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, illustrated and described by Bayer & Stefani 1987) designated by Alderslade 1992, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 49: 104 (specific name of the type species of Mopsea Lamouroux 1816) (Anthozoa). Opinion 1738  

ENCRINURIDAE Angelin 1854, Pal. scand., 1 (Crust. Format. transit.): 88 (type genus: Encrinurus Emmrich 1844) (Trilobita). Opinion 537  

Encrinurus Emmrich 1844, Naturgesch. Trilobiten: 16 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Entomostracites punctatus Wahlenberg [1818], Nov. Acta K. vet.-Soc. Upsala, 8: 32, pl. ii, fig. 1* [nec fig. 1]) (Trilobita). Opinion 537, Direction 111

Encrinus Andreae 1763, Briefe aus der Schweiz (Hannoverisches Magazin) (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 636  

Encrinus Andreae 1776, Briefe aus der Schweiz (separate) (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 636 

Encrinus Blumenbach 1779, Handb. Naturgesch. (ed. 1): 435 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 636 

Encrinus Blumenbach 1788, Handb. Naturgesch. (ed. 3): 503 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 636 

Encrinus Lamarck 1801, Syst. Anim. sans Vertèbr.: 379 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Encrinus liliiformis Lamarck 1801, Syst. Anim. sans Vertèbr.: 379) (Crinoidea). Opinion 636 

Encrinus Schultze 1760, Betrachtung der Versteinerten Seesterne und Ihrer Theile: 21 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 636

Encrinus, all uses prior to that by Lamarck 1801 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 636  

encrinus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Isis], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 800 (specific name of the type species of Umbellula Cuvier [1797]) (Anthozoa). Opinion 636, Opinion 1903

Endamoeba Leidy 1879, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1879: 205 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Amoeba blattae Bütschli 1878, Z. wiss. Zool., 30: 273-277) (Rhizopoda). Opinion 95, Opinion 312

Endelomyia Ashmead 1898, Canadian Entomologist, 30(10): 256 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy and original designation: Selandria rosae Harris 1841, a junior subjective synonym of Tenthredo aethiops Gmelin 1790) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1963

Endothyra Brown 1843, The Elements of Fossil Conchology: 17 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 724 

Endothyra Phillips [1846], Proc. geol. polytech. Soc. West Riding, Yorks, 2: 277 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Endothyra bowmani Phillips [1846], Proc. geol. polytech. Soc. West Riding, Yorks, 2: 277, fig. 1) (Rhizopoda). Opinion 724  

endrachtensis Péron 1807 [originally in Tupinambis], Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté L’Empereur et Roi sur les Corvettes le Géographie, le Naturaliste, et la Goélette le Casuarina, pendant les années 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804, vol. 1, p. 118 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Reptilia, Squamata). Opinion 1948  

Enema Hope 1837, Col. Man., 1: 83 (gender: neuter) (type species, by original designation: Scarabaeus enema Fabricius 1787, Mantissa Ins., 1: 4) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 353

enema Fabricius 1787 [originally in Scarabaeus], Mantissa Ins., 1: 4 (specific name of the type species of Enema Hope 1837) for use by those who consider that this nominal species is not conspecific with Scarabaeus pan Fabricius 1775 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 353 

Engaeus Erichson 1846, Arch. Naturgesch., 12(1): 88, 89, 102 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Clark 1936 (Mem. nat. Mus. Victoria, 10: 37): Astacus (Engaeus) fossor Erichson 1846, Arch. Naturgesch., 12(1): 102) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 519

Engycampyle Holmberg 1917, Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires, 28: 578 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 2069  

Enhydra Fleming 1822, Phil. Zool., 2: 187 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Mustela lutris Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 45) (Mammalia). Opinion 384  

ENHYDRINA Gray 1825, Ann. Phil., 26(5): 340 (type genus: Enhydra Fleming 1822) (an incorrect original spelling for ENHYDRINAE Gray 1825). Direction 53  

ENHYDRINAE (correction by Gill 1872 (Smithson. misc. Coll., 230: 6, 65) of ENHYDRINA) Gray 1825, Ann. Phil., 26(5): 340 (type genus: Enhydra Fleming 1822) for use by those who consider that Enhydra Fleming and Lutra Brisson 1762 belong to different family-group taxa (Mammalia). Direction 53  

ENHYDRINI Régimbart 1882, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (6)2: 391–392, spelling emended to ENHYDRUSINI under the Plenary Power (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2297

Enhydrus Dahl 1823, Col. u. Lepid.: 34 (included in a work suppressed under the plenary power for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 710 

Enhydrus Laporte,1834, Études entomologiques, ou description d’Insectes nouveaux et observations sur leur synonymie. Méquinon-Marvis, Paris, p.110, conserved under the plenary power, stem ruled under the plenary power to be Enhydrus- for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code (gender: masculine), type species by monotypy Gyrinus sulcatus Wiedemann 1821, Mag. Entomol. (Germar), 4: 119 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 710, Opinion 2297  

Enhydrus MacLeay 1825, Annul. Jav., 1: 35 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 710  

Enhydrus Rafinesque 1815, Analyse Nature: 77 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Enhydris Latreille [1802]). Opinion 710

ENHYDRUSINI Régimbart 1882, Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, (6)2: 391–392, type genus Enhydrus Laporte 1834, spelling emended from ENHYDRINI under the Plenary Power (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2297

ENIDAE Woodward 1903 (1880), Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 5(5): 310 (type genus: Ena Turton 1831), ruled under the plenary power that this name and other familygroup names based on Ena are to be given precedence over BULIMINUSIDAE Kobelt 1880 and other family-group names based on Buliminus Beck 1837 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Gastropoda). Opinion 2018

eniomon Gurjanova 1936 [originally in Mesidothea (sic)], Fauna of the U.S.S.R., 7(3): 145 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for entomon Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Oniscus]). Opinion 643 

Enithares Spinola 1837, Essai Genres Ins. Ordre Hémipt.: 60 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Notonecta ciliata Fabricius 1798, Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 524, 525) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 875 

Enixe Gistl 1848, Naturg. Thierr. höhere Schulen: ix (a junior objective synonym of Drepane Cuvier 1831). Opinion 1046  

enodis Linnaeus 1767 [originally in Tenthredo], Systema Naturae, Ed. 12, vol. 1, part 2, p. 922 (specific name of the type species of Arge Schrank 1802) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Direction 4  

Enoplognatha Pavesi 1880, Rend. reale Ist. Lombardo Sci. Lett., (2)13: 192 (also later in 1880, Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova, 15: 325) (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Pavesi 1880 (Ann. Mus. Stor. nat. Genova, 15: 325): Theridion mandibulare Lucas 1846, Explor. sci. Algérie (Zool.), 2, (Hist. nat. Anim. art.) (1): 260, pl. 17, fig. 1) (Arachnida). Opinion 517 

Enoplometopus Milne Edwards 1862, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (4)17: 362 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Enoplometopus pictus Milne Edwards 1862, Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (4)17: 362) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 519  

ensifer Milne Edwards 1881 [originally in Heterocarpus], Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (6)11(4): 8 (specific name of the type species of Heterocarpus Milne Edwards 1881) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

ensiferus Risso 1816 [originally in Palemon (sic)], Hist. nat. Crust. Nice: 106 (valid name at the date of Opinion 470 of the type species of Ligur Sarato 1885) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

ensiger Owen 1832 [originally in Gonodactylus], Proc. zool. Soc. London, 1832: 6 (valid name at the date of Opinion 785 of the type species of Hemisquilla Hansen 1895) (Crustacea, Stomatopoda). Opinion 785

ensis Milne Edwards 1881 [originally in Acanthephyra], Ann. Sci. nat., Paris (Zool.), (6)11(4): 14 (valid name at the date of Opinion 470 of the type species of Plesionika Bate 1888) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470  

entalis Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Dentalium], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 785 (specific name of the type species of Antalis Adams & Adams [1854]) (Scaphopoda). Opinion 361

Entamoeba Casagrandi & Barbagallo 1895, Bull. Accad. Gioenia Sci. nat. Catania (n.s.), 1895(41): 18 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Amoeba coli Grassi 1879, Gazz. med. Lombarda, 39(45): 445, ruled under the plenary power to be an available binomen and as interpreted by Dobell 1919 (The Amoebae living in Man: 78-92; pl. I, figs. 12-15; pl. II, fig. 17; pl. IV, figs. 55-69)) (Rhizopoda). Opinion 312  

entelloides Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1842 [originally in Hylobates], C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 15: 717, conserved by suppression under the plenary power of the specific names of Simia longimana Schreber [1774] and Simia albimana Vigors & Horsfield 1828 (Mammalia). Opinion 1219, Opinion 1736 

entellus Dufresne 1797 [originally in Simia], Bull. Sci. Soc. philom. Paris, no. 7: 49 (specific name of the type species of Semnopithecus Desmarest 1822) (Mammalia). Opinion 1202 

Enterion Savigny [1822], Description de lEgypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches ... Histoire naturelle, 1(3): 103 (a junior objective synonym of Lumbricus Linnaeus 1758). Opinion 1102

Entomobrya Rondani 1861, Dipterol. ital. Prodr., 4: 40 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Börner 1903 (SitzBer. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1903 (No. 3): 178): Degeeria muscorum Nicolet [1842], Neue Denkschr. allgem. Schweiz. Ges., 6: 73) (Insecta, Collembola). Opinion 440

ENTOMOBRYIDAE Schäffer 1896, Mitt. naturh. Mus. Hamburg, 13: 177 (type genus: Entomobrya Rondani 1861) (Insecta, Collembola). Opinion 440  

Entomocephalus Holl 1829, Handbuch der Petrefactenkunde, Hilscher, Dresden, pp. 178–9, suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy. (Aranaeae). Opinion 2258 

Entomolithus Gesner 1758, Tract. Petrif.: 57 (included in a work rejected under the plenary power for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 496  

Entomolithus Linnaeus 1759, K. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., Stockholm, 20: 19 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 496  

entomon Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Oniscus], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 636 (specific name of the type species of Saduria Adams 1852) (Crustacea, Isopoda). Opinion 643, Addendum to Opinion 643 (Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 21: 92)

Entomostracites Wahlenberg [1818], Nova Acta K. vet.-Soc. Upsala, 8: 25 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 496  

entozoon Ehrenberg 1838 [originally in Bursaria], Die Infusionsth.: 327 (specific name of the type species of Balantidium Claparède & Lachmann 1858) (Ciliophora). Opinion 915