International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS


taxa names:

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hibberti Agassiz 1835 [originally in Megalichthys], in Hibbert, Trans. roy. Soc. Edinburgh, 13: 202 (specific name of the type species of Megalichthys Agassiz 1835) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 930

hibberti Owen 1840 [originally in Rhizodus], Odontography, Expl. pls.: 12, as ruled under the plenary power to be a name distinct from Megalichthys hibberti Agassiz 1835 and as interpreted by the neotype designated by Thomson 1966 (Bull. zool. Nomencl., 23: 119 (specific name of the type species of Rhizodus Owen 1840) (Osteichthyes). Opinion 930 

hibiscae [Hübner 1790-1793] [originally in Papilio], Lep. Linn.: 15 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 975  

hieroglyphicus Sahlberg 1878 [originally in Aradus], Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 16(4): 22 (Insecta, Heteroptera). Opinion 1783

hieroglyphicus Potiez & Michaud 1838 [originally in Bulimus], Galérie Moll. Cat. méth., 1: 144 (specific name of the type species of Omphalotropis Pfeiffer 1851) (Gastropoda). Opinion 973

hieroglyphicus Klug 1832 [originally in Decticus], Symbolae physicae, seu icones et descriptiones insectorum, in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Symbolae physicae (Zool.), 2 (Insecta 3) sign. f, fol. (1, 2): pl. 25 (Insecta, Orthoptera). Opinion 1055

hieroglyphicus Müller (Physiologist) 1826 [originally in Gryllus], Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtsinnes des Menschen und der Thiere nebst einem Versuch über die Bewegung der Augen und über den menschlichen Blick: 332, 355, 358, 437 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1055

hilairea Guérin 1832 [originally in Donax], Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, pl. 30, fig. 4 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Bivalvia). Opinion 1372

hilarella Walker 1863 [originally in Azinis], List of the specimens of lepidopterous Insects in the collection of the British Museum, part 28, p. 541 (specific name of the type species of Azinis Walker 1863) (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1544  

Hildoceras Hyatt 1867, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 1(5): 99 (gender: neuter) (type species, by designation by Buckman 1889 (Monogr. Inferior Oolite Ammonites (Pal. Soc.): 111): Ammonites bifrons Bruguière [1789], Ency. méth.. Vers 1(1): 40) (Cephalopoda). Opinion 304 

HILDOCERATIDAE Hyatt 1867, Bull. Mus. comp. Zool., 1: 99 (type genus: Hildoceras Hyatt 1867) (Cephalopoda). Direction 14

hilla Lesson 1830 [originally in Holothuria], Cent. Zool. (13-16): 226 (Holothuroidea). Opinion 914

Hiltermannicythere Bassiouni 1970, Rev. española Micropaleontol., 3: 121 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Cythereis turbida Müller 1894, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel, Monogr. 21: 371, 372) (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Opinion 1173  

Hindia Duncan 1879, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (5)4: 91 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Hindia sphaeroidalis Duncan 1879) (Porifera). Opinion 2134  

HINDIIDAE Rauff 1894, Sitzungsberichte der Niederrheinischen Gesellschaft für Natur und Heilkunde, vol. 43, p. 327 (type genus: Hindia Duncan 1879) (Porifera). Opinion 2134

Hyostoma Agassiz 1854 (gender: neuter), objective junior synonym of Etheostoma Rafinesque 1819 (Opinion 14)

Hipocrita Hübner [1810], Samml. exot. schmett., 1: pl. [189] (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Hypocrita Hübner [1807]). Opinion 789

Hipocrita Hübner 1808, Erste Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett.: 4, 5 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 789  

Hippa Fabricius 1787, Mantissa Ins., 1: 329 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Rathbun 1900 (Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 22: 301): Hippa adactyla Fabricius 1787, Mantissa Ins., 1: 329) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 643  

Hippella Moerch 1861, Malakozoologische Blätter, 7: 199 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 872 

HIPPIDAE (correction of HIPPIDES) Latreille 1825, Fam. nat. Règne Anim.: 275 (type genus: Hippa Fabricius 1787) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 643 

HIPPIDES Latreille 1825, Fam. nat. Règne Anim.: 275 (type genus: Hippa Fabricius 1787) (an incorrect original spelling for HIPPIDAE Latreille 1825). Opinion 643  

hippocastanum Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Murex], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 751 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 911

hippocrepia Wright 1856 [originally in Phoronis] (Phoronida). ICZN 2015: Opinion 2373

hippoglossi Guérin [1831] [originally in Clavella], Iconographie du Règne Animal, livraison 16 (specific name of the type species of Hatschekia Poche 1902) (Copepoda). Opinion 1430

Hippolite Ross 1835, J. Ross’s App. Narrat. 2nd. Voy. N.W. Pass.: lxxxiii (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Hippolyte [Leach 1814]). Opinion 606

Hippolithe Brullé 1839, in Webb & Berthelot, Hist. nat. Iles Canaries, 2 (2, Entomol.): 18 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Hippolyte [Leach 1814]). Opinion 606 

HIPPOLYIDAE Yu 1935, Chin. J. Zool., 1: 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53 (type genus: Hippolyte [Leach 1814]) (an incorrect subsequent spelling for HIPPOLYTIDAE Bate 1888). Opinion 470  

Hippolysmata Stimpson 1860, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860: 26 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Hippolysmata vittata Stimpson 1860, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860: 26) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470 

Hippolyta Burmeister 1837, Handb. Naturgesch., 2: 565 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Hippolyte [Leach 1814]). Opinion 606 

Hippolyte [Leach 1814], in Brewster’s Edinburgh Ency., 7(2): 431 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Leach [1817] (Malac. podophth. Brit. (16): expl. to pl. 38): Hippolyte varians [Leach 1814], in Brewster’s Edinburgh Ency., 7(2): 431) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470

Hippolytes Risso 1826, Hist. nat. princip. Prod. Europ. mérid., 5: 78 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Hippolyte [Leach 1814]). Opinion 606

HIPPOLYTIDAE Bate 1888, Rep. Voy. Challenger’ (Zool.), 24: xii, xli, 480, 503, 574, 576 (type genus: Hippolyte [Leach 1814]), ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over the family-group names LYSMATINAE Dana 1852 and THORINAE Kingsley 1878 by those who consider that the genera Hippolyte [Leach], Lysmata Risso 1816 and/or Thor Kingsley 1878 belong to the same familygroup taxon (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 470  

Hippolytus Guérin 1832, Exped. sci. Morée, Zool., 2: 41 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Hippolyte [Leach 1814]). Opinion 606 

Hippopigenus [Renier] [1807] [Tav. serv. Class. Conn. Anim.]: Tav. VII (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 427

HIPPOPODIIDAE Cox 1969, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, part N, vol. 2, p. 582, spelling emended to HIPPOPODIUMIDAE following the ruling that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Hippopodium J. Sowerby 1819 is HIPPOPODIUM- (Bivalvia). Opinion 2036 

HIPPOPODIIDAE Kölliker 1853, Die Schwimmpolypen oder Siphonophoren von Messina, p. 28 (type genus: Hippopodius Quoy & Gaimard 1827) (Hydrozoa). Opinion 2036 

Hippopodium J. Sowerby 1819, The mineral conchology of Great Britain, vol. 3, no. 44, p. 91 (gender: neuter) (type species, by monotypy: Hippopodium ponderosum J. Sowerby 1819) (Bivalvia). Opinion 2036

HIPPOPODIUMIDAE Cox 1969, Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, part N, vol. 2, p. 582 (type genus: Hippopodium J. Sowerby 1819), spelling emended from HIPPOPODIIDAE by the ruling under the plenary power that for the purposes of Article 29 of the Code the stem of the generic name Hippopodium is HIPPOPODIUM- (Bivalvia). Opinion 2036 

Hippopodius Quoy & Gaimard 1827, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 10: 172 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Hippopodius luteus Quoy & Gaimard 1827, a junior subjective synonym of Gleba hippopus Forsskål 1776) (Hydrozoa). Opinion 2036  

Hippopotamus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 74 (gender: masculine) (type species, by Linnaean tautonymy: Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 74) (Mammalia). Opinion 75 

hippopus Forsskål 1776 [originally in Gleba], Icones rerum naturalium quae in itinere Orientali depingi curavit P. Forskål, pl. 43, fig. E (senior subjective synonym of Hippopodius luteus Quoy & Gaimard 1827, the type species of Hippopodius Quoy & Gaimard 1827) (Hydrozoa). Opinion 2036  

hippopus Moerch 1861 [originally in Hippella], Malakozoologische Blätter, 7: 199 (Bivalvia). Opinion 872

HIPPOTRAGINAE Sundevall 1845, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Andra Årgången, 1845(2, 3): 31 (type genus: Hippotragus Sundevall 1846) (Mammalia). Opinion 2030 

Hippotragus Sundevall 1845, Öfvers. K. svensk. Vetensk.Akad. Förhandl., Stockholm, 2: 31 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Direction 23 

Hippotragus Sundevall 1846, K. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., Stockholm, 1844: 196 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Antilope leucophaea Pallas 1766, Miscell. Zool.: 4) (Mammalia). Opinion 109, Direction 23

Hippurites Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 1: 263 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592

Hippurites Lamarck 1801, Syst. Anim. sans Vertèbr.: 104 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Hippurites bioculata Lamarck 1801, Syst. Anim. sans Vertèbr.: 104) (Bivalvia). Opinion 613

HIPPURITIDAE Gray 1848, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (2)2: 440 (type genus: Hippurites Lamarck 1801) (Bivalvia). Opinion 613  

hippurus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Coryphaena], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 261 (specific name of the type species of Coryphaena Linnaeus 1758) (Osteichthyes). Direction 57

hircus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Capra], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 68 (specific name of the type species of Capra Linnaeus 1758) (Mammalia). Direction 22

hirsuta Barrande 1846 [originally in Sao], Not. prélim. Syst. silur. Trilob. Bohême: 13 (specific name of the type species of Sao Barrande 1846) (Trilobita). Opinion 512 

hirsutus Walckenaer 1824 [originally in Thomisus], Faune Française, vol. 4, p. 85 (an incorrect subsequent spelling of Thomisus hirtus Latreille 1819) (Arachnida, Araneae). Opinion 1488

HIRTAEIDES Billberg 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billberg: 121 (type genus: Hirtea Fabricius 1798) (an incorrect original spelling for HIRTEIDAE Billberg 1820). Opinion 441

hirtata Fabricius 1794 [originally in Phalaena], Entomol. syst., 3(2): 181, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over coracina Esper 1805, as published in the binomen Phalaena coracina, whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Insecta, Lepidoptera). Opinion 1362

Hirtea Fabricius 1798, Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 547 (a junior homonym of Hirtea Scopoli 1763). Opinion 441 

Hirtea Scopoli 1763, Entomol. carn.: 367 (conserved under the plenary power) (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Hirtea longicornis Scopoli 1763, Entomol. carn.: 367) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 441

HIRTEIDAE (correction of HIRTAEIDES) Billberg 1820, Enum. Ins. Mus. Billberg: 121 (type genus: Hirtea Fabricius 1798) (invalid because the name of the type genus is a junior homonym of Hirtea Scopoli 1763). Opinion 441

hirtellus Linnaeus 1761 [originally in Cancer], Fauna svec. (ed. 2): 493 (specific name of the type species of Pilumnus Leach 1815) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36

Hirticollis Sahlberg 1903 (Coleoptera). ICZN 2016: Opinion 2377

Hirticomus Pic 1894 (Coleoptera). ICZN 2016: Opinion 2377

hirticornis Brullé 1835 [originally in Neides], in Audouin & Brullé, Histoire naturelle des Insectes, traitant de leur organisation et de leurs moeurs en général, par M. V. Audouin ... et comprenant leur classification et la description des espèces, par M. A. Brullé, vol. 9, Orthoptères et Hémiptères, p. 355 (specific name of the type species of Melorus Mulsant & Rey 1870) (Insecta, Heteroptera). Opinion 1504 

hirtipennis Broun 1915 [originally in Quedius], New Zealand Institute Bulletin, 1(4): 279, ruled under the plenary power to be not invalid by reason of being a junior primary homonym of Q. hirtipennis Stephens 1832 (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 2053  

hirtipes Fabricius 1793 [originally in Andrena], Entomologica systematica emendata et aucta ..., vol. 2, p. 312 (specific name of the type species of Dasypoda Latreille 1802) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1926 

hirtipes Dana 1852 [originally in Cardisoma], Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 253 (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 1205

hirtipes Lamarck 1818 [originally in Gecarcinus], Hist. nat. Anim. sans Vert., 5: 251 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 1205

hirtipes Heller [1865] [originally in Pinnaxodes], Reise Novara’ (Zool.), 2(3) (Crust.): 68, pl. 6, figs. 2, 2a (specific name of the type species of Pinnaxodes Heller [1865]) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Direction 36 

hirtulus Burmeister 1835 [originally in Blissus], Handb. Entomol., 2: 290 (specific name of the type species of Blissus Burmeister 1835) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 705

hirtus Dana 1851 [originally in Paguristes], Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 272 (specific name of the type species of Paguristes Dana 1851) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 712  

hirtus Tilesius von Tilenau 1818 [originally in Symphysopus], Ann. Wetterau. Ges. Naturk., 4: 9 (included in a work suppressed under the plenary power for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 864  

hirtus Latreille 1819 [originally in Thomisus], Nouveau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle, Ed. 2, p. 41 (specific name of the type species of Heriaeus Simon 1875) (Arachnida, Araneae). Opinion 1488  

Hirudo Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 649 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Apstein 1915 (SitzBer. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin, 1915: 140): Hirudo medicinalis Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 649) (Hirudinea). Opinion 75, Direction 76  

Hirudo Müller 1788, Zool. dan. (ed. 3), 1: 21 (a junior homonym of Hirudo Linnaeus 1758). Direction 76

Hirundigenus [Renier] [1807] [Tav. serv. Class. Conn. Anim.]: Tav. VII (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 427

hirundo Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Sterna], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 137 (specific name of the type species of Sterna Linnaeus 1758) (Aves). Direction 17

Hirundoecus Ewing 1930, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 77 (No. 2843): 12 (gender: masculine) (type species, by original designation: Hirundoecus americanus Ewing 1930, Proc. U.S. nat. Mus., 77 (No. 2843): 12) for use by those who consider that the type species of this genus is not congeneric with the type species of Machaerilaemus Harrison 1915 (Insecta, Mallophaga). Opinion 343

hislopi Lydekker 1885 [originally in Parasuchus], Palaeontologia Indica, (4)1(5): 23, as defined by the neotype (articulated skeleton ISIR 42 in the Geological Museum of the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta) designated under the plenary power (specific name of the type species of Parasuchus Lydekker 1885) (Reptilia). Opinion 2045

hispida Pennant 1777 [originally in Asterias], British Zoology, 4: 62, fig. 58 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 984  

hispida Eydoux & Souleyet 1842 [originally in Domecia], in Vaillant, Voy. Bonite’ (Zool.), 1: 235 (specific

hispida Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Helix], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 771 (specific name of the type species of Trochulus Chemnitz 1786) (Gastropoda). Opinion 336, Opinion 2079 

hispida Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Lacerta], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, pp. 205, 206, as interpreted by Laurenti 1768 (Specimen Medicum: 51) acting as first reviser (Reptilia). Opinion 565  

hispidus Rossi 1792 [originally in Notoxus] (Coleoptera). ICZN 2016: Opinion 2377

hispidus Olivier [1811] [originally in Palaemon], Ency. méth., 8 (Ins.): 666 (specific name of the type species of Stenopus Latreille 1819) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 381, Opinion 522

hispidus Schreber [1774] [originally in Vespertilio], Die Säugthiere, 1: 169, pl. 56 (specific name of the type species of Nycteris Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier 1795) (Mammalia). Direction 22 

histeroides Fabricius 1792 [originally in Lyctus], Entomologia Systematica, vol. 1, part 2, p. 504 (specific name of the type species of Cerylon Latreille 1802) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1811

histolytica Schaudinn 1903 [originally in Entamoeba], Arb. Gesundheitsamt. Berlin, 19(3): 564, as interpreted by Dobell 1919, The Amoebae living in Man: 31-70; pl. I, figs. 1-6; pl. II, fig. 16; pl. III; pl. IV, figs. 70-76 (specific name of the type species of Poneramoeba Lühe 1909) (Rhizopoda). Opinion 312

histriae Herbst 1783 [originally in Cancer], Versuch Naturgesch. Krabben Krebse, 1(2-5): 97 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for istrianus, Cancer, Scopoli 1763). Opinion 701

histrianus Nardo 1869 [originally in Cancer], Mem. Ist. Veneto Sci. Lett. Arti, 14: 14 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for istrianus Scopoli 1763 [originally in Cancer]). Opinion 701

histrio Herbst 1796 [originally in Cancer], Versuch Naturgesch. Krabben Krebse, 2: 222 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for istrianus Scopoli 1763 [originally in Cancer]). Opinion 701

histrix Bertrand 1763 [originally in Echinites], Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 2: 102 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592  

histrix Otto 1821 [originally in Eolidia], Consp. Anim. quor. marit. non edit., 1: 8 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 774