International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS
taxa names:
Ka
kachowskii Nikolsky 1900 [originally in Chiromantis], Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St Pétersbourg, 5(1-2): 246, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the name Rana cryptotis Boulenger 1907 whenever the two names are considered to be synonyms (Amphibia). Opinion 1983
Kakatoe Cuvier 1800, Leçons d’anatomie comparée de G. Cuvier, recueilles et publiées sous ses yeux par C. Duméril et G.-L. Duvernoy, vol. 1, table 2 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Aves, Psittaciformes). Opinion 1949
kaleniczenkoi Clessin 1883 [originally in Amalia] (Gastropoda). ICZN 2016: Opinion 2385
Kalophrynus Tschudi 1838 (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae): conservation by designation of a neotype for its type species Kalophrynus pleurostigma Tschudi 1838 not approved. ICZN 2017: Opinion 2403 (Case 3618)
Kalotermes Hagen 1853, Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 18: 479-480 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Termes flavicollis Fabricius 1793) (Insecta, Isoptera). Opinion 2007
kaluzinensis Fredericks 1925 [originally in Yakovlevia], Rec. geol. Comm. Russian Far East, 40: 7 (specific name of the type species of Yakovlevia Fredericks 1925) (Brachiopoda). Opinion 368
Kalydon Hutton 1884, Trans. N.Z. Inst., 16: 220 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 911
kangaru, all uses of (and its various spellings kanguro, kanguru), in combination with Mus, Yerboa, Jaculus, Zerbua, Didelphis, Didelphys and Macropus (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 760
kangaru Forster 1778 [originally in Yerbua], K. svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., 39: 111 (a junior objective synonym of canguru Müller 1776 [originally in Mus]). Opinion 730
kanieriensis Harris 1897 [originally in Turritella], Cat. Tert. Moll. Br. Mus., part 1, Australasia: 240, as interpreted by the lectotype designated under the plenary power (Gastropoda). Opinion 810
karpinskii Amalitzky 1922 [originally in Pareiasaurus], Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, (6)16: 334-335, as defined by the holotype (specimen no. PIN 2005/1532 in the Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow) (specific name of the type species of Scutosaurus Hartmann-Weinberg 1930) (Reptilia). Opinion 2025
karpinskyi Watson 1917 [originally in Pariasaurus (sic)], Journal of Anatomy, 52 (3rd series, vol. 13): 10 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Reptilia). Opinion 2025
kasai Grant 1956 [originally in Halcyon leucocephala], Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (12)9: 366 (a junior primary homonym of kasai Horniman 1940 [originally in Halcyon leucocephala]). Opinion 480
kasai Horniman 1940 [originally in Halcyon leucocephala], Prelim. Descr. new Birds: 1 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 480
Kassina Girard 1853, Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 6: 421 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Cystignathus senegalensis Duméril & Bibron 1841, Erpét. gén., 8: 418) ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over the generic name Hylambates Duméril 1853 whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Amphibia). Opinion 849, Opinion 1364
Kateretes Herbst 1793, Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten ..., p. 11 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Hope 1840, The Coleopterist’s Manual, part 3, p. 155: Dermestes pedicularius Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1916
KATERETIDAE Erichson in Agassiz [1846], Nomenclator zoologicus, fasc. 11, p. 30 (type genus: Kateretes Herbst 1793), ruled under the plenary power that this name and other familygroup names based on Kateretes are to be given precedence over BRACHYPTERINAE Erichson [1845] and other familygroup names based on Brachypterus Kugelann 1794 whenever their type genera are placed in the same family-group taxon (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1916
kattwinkeli Schwarz 1932 [originally in Alcelaphus], Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, (B)1932(1): 4, as defined by the holotype (specimen no. VI-1099 in the Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie in Munich) (Mammalia). Opinion 2029
kawakamii Matsumura 1907 [originally in Notocrypta], Insect world, 11: 50 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Lepidoptera) Opinion 2193