International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature:
OPINIONS and DIRECTIONS

taxa names:

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Mya Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 670 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Children 1822 (Quart. J. Sci. Lit. Arts, 14: 85): Mya truncata Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 670) (Bivalvia). Opinion 94, Direction 72

Mya Rondani 1850, N. Ann. Sci. nat., Bologna, (3)2: 175 (a junior homonym of Mya Linnaeus 1758). Direction 72

MYCETOGLOSSINI Bonaparte 1850, Conspectus systematum, Classis IV (Amphibia), no. 27 (invalid because the name of the type genus has been suppressed under the plenary power) (Amphibia, Caudata). Opinion 1873

Mycetoglossus Bonaparte [1839], Iconografia della fauna Italica per le quattro classi degli animali vertebrati, vol. 2 (Amfibi), Generi Salamandrini, no. 13 (a junior objective synonym of Pseudotriton Tschudi 1838) (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Amphibia, Caudata). Opinion 1873

Mycetoporus Mannerheim 1831, Mémoires présentés à l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg par divers Savants, et dans ses Assemblées, 1(5): 476 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Thomson 1859, Skandinaviens Coleoptera, synoptiskt bearbetade, vol. 1, p. 47: Tachinus punctus Gravenhorst 1806), ruled under the plenary power to be given precedence over Ischnosoma Stephens 1829 whenever the two names are considered to be synonyms (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1726

Mycodinium Averinzeff 1916, Revue Zoologique Russe, 1(6/7): 183 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Ciliophora). Opinion 2106

Mycotretus Dejean 1836, Catalogue des coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean, Ed. 2, Livr. 5, p. 428, and all uses of the name prior to the publication of Mycotretus Lacordaire 1842 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1824

Mycotretus Lacordaire 1842, Monographie des Erotyliens, famille de l’ordre des coléoptères, p. 132 (gender: masculine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Boyle 1956, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 110(2): 137: Erotylus lesueuri Chevrolat 1835) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1824 

Mycteromyia Philippi 1865, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 15: 712 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation in Opinion 1238: Pangonia conica Bigot 1857, Ann. Soc. entomol. France, 5: 278) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1238

Mydaus Cuvier 1821, in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, Hist. nat. Mammif., 2(27): ‘Telagon’ 2 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Mydaus meliceps Cuvier 1821, in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, Hist. nat. Mammif., 2(27): ‘Telagon’ 2) (Mammalia). Opinion 384  

MYDONIIDAE Salmon 1945, Trans. roy. Soc. N.Z., 75: 69 (type genus: Mydonius Gistl 1848) (invalid because the name of the type genus has been suppressed under the plenary power). Opinion 440

Mydonius Gistl 1848, Nat. Thierr.: ix (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy). Opinion 440

Myelophilus Eichhoff 1878, Stettin Entomol. Ztg., 39: 400 (a junior objective synonym of Tomicus Latreille [1802]). Opinion 670

Myersia Evans 1929, Bull. entomol. Res., 19: 353 (a junior homonym of Myersia Viereck 1912). Opinion 319

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

Myiobius Darwin 1839, Zool. Voy. ‘Beagle’, 3: 46 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Muscicapa barbata Gmelin [1789], in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 13, vol. 1, part 2, p. 933) (Aves). Opinion 414  

Mylabris Fabricius 1775, Systema Entomologiae, p. 261 (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Latreille 1810, Considérations générales sur l’ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des crustacés, des arachnides et des insectes, p. 430: Meloe cichorii Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1809

Mylabris Geoffroy 1762, Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris, vol. 1, p. 266, and all uses of the name prior to the publication of Mylabris Fabricius 1775 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of both the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1809 

Myletes Cuvier 1814, Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris, 1814: 75 (suppressed under the plenary power for the purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy) (Osteichthyes, Characiformes). Opinion 1813 

Mymar Curtis 1829, Guide Arrang. Brit. Ins.: 112 (gender: neuter) (type species, by designationunder the plenary power: Mymar pulchellum Curtis 1832, Brit. Entomol., 9: pl. 411) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 729

MYMARIDAE Haliday 1839, in Westwood, Introd. mod. Classif. Brit. Ins., 2: 173 (type genus: Mymar Curtis 1829) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 729  

Mymarilla Westwood 1879, Trans. linn. Soc. London, (2)1: 583-593 (gender: neuter) (type species, by original designation: Mymar wollastonii Westwood 1879, Trans. linn. Soc. London, (2)1: 585) (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 729

Myodocha Latreille 1807, Gen. Crust. Ins., 3: 126 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Myodochus serripes Olivier 1811, Ency. méth., 8 (Ins.): 106) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 669

MYODOCHINI (correction of MYODOCHARIA) Stål 1872, Öfvers. K. svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. Förhandl., 29(7): 51 (type genus: Myodocha Latreille 1807) (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 669 

Myodochus Olivier 1811, Ency. méth., 8 (Ins.): 104, 106 (an unjustifed emendation of Myodocha Latreille 1807). Opinion 669  

Myopa Fabricius 1775, Systema Entomologiae ..., p. 798 (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Curtis 1838, British entomology; being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland, pl. 677, text: Conops buccatus Linnaeus 1758) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1870  

Myopella Robineau-Desvoidy 1853, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l’Yonne, 7: 98 (a junior objective synonym of Myopa Fabricius 1775) (Insecta, Diptera). Opinion 1870

myoti Kolenati [1856] [originally in Pteropus], Paras. Chiropt.: 26 (specific name of the type species of Spinturnix von Heyden 1826) (Arachnida). Direction 67

Myotis Kaup 1829, Skizz. Entwickel.-Gesch. naturl. Syst. europ. Thierwelt: 106 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Vespertilio murinus Schreber [1775], Die Säugthiere, 1: 165, pl. 11, valid name: Vespertilio myotis Borkhausen 1797) (Mammalia). Direction 98  

myotis Borkhausen 1797 [originally in Vespertilio], Deutschl. Fauna, 1: 80 (valid name at the date of Direction 98 of the type species of Myotis Kaup 1829) (Mammalia). Direction 98

Myoxus Zimmermann 1780, Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere, vol. 2, p. 351 (a junior objective synonym of Glis Brisson 1762) (Mammalia, Rodentia). Opinion 1894  

Myra Leach 1817, Zool. Miscell., 3: 19, 23 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Leucosia fugax Fabricius 1798, Suppl. Entomol. syst.: 351) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 712  

Myriochele Malmgren 1867, Spetsbergens, Grönlands, Islands och den Skandinaviska halföns hittills kända Annulata Polychaeta, p. 101 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Myriochele heeri Malmgren 1867) (Polychaeta). Opinion 1636

myriventris Retzius 1783 [originally in Ichneumon aeneus] (Arthropoda). ICZN 2014: Opinion 2333

Myrma Billberg 1820, Enumeratio Insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg, p. 104 (gender: feminine) (type species, by subsequent designation by Wheeler 1911, Science, (n.s.)33: 859: Formica militaris Fabricius 1781), ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the name Polyrhachis Smith 1857 whenever the two names are considered to be synonyms (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1919

Myrmarachne MacLeay 1839, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (1)2: 10 (gender: feminine), type species by monotypy Myrmarachne melanocephala MacLeay 1839 (Aranaeae). Opinion 2258

Myrmecopha Fischer von Waldheim 1803, Ann. Mus. Hist. nat., Paris, 2: 333 (an incorrect subsequent spelling for Myrmecophaga Linnaeus 1758). Direction 24  

Myrmecophaga Lacepède 1799, Tabl. Ois.: 6 (a junior homonym of Myrmecophaga Linnaeus 1758). Direction 24  

Myrmecophaga Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 35 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation by Thomas 1901 (Amer. Nat., 35: 143, 144): Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 35) (Mammalia). Opinion 91, Direction 24

Myrmecophagus Gray 1825, Ann. Phil., 26: 343 (an unjustified emendation of Myrmecophaga Linnaeus 1758). Direction 24  

myrmecophilum Theobald 1916 [originally in Macrosiphum], Entomologist, 49: 49, ruled under the plenary power not to be given priority over the specific name festucae Theobald 1917, as published in the binomen Myzus festucae, whenever the two names are considered synonyms (Insecta, Hemiptera). Opinion 1353

Myrmecophilus Berthold 1827, in Latreille, Nat. Fam. Thierr.: 409 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Blatta acervorum Panzer [1799], Fauna Ins. germ. (68): tab. 24) (Insecta, Orthoptera). Opinion 149 

Myrodes Bell 1855, Proc. linn. Soc. London, 2: 432; id., 1855, Trans. linn. Soc. London, 21: 298 (gender: masculine) (type species, by monotypy: Myrodes eudactylus Bell 1855, Proc. linn. Soc. London, 2: 432; id., 1855, Trans. linn. Soc. London, 21: 299) (Crustacea, Decapoda). Opinion 73, Direction 37

Myrsidea Waterston 1915, Entomol. mon. Mag., 51: 12 (gender: feminine) (type species, by original designation: Myrsidea victrix Waterston 1915, Entomol. mon. Mag., 51: 13) (Insecta, Mallophaga). Opinion 627

mysia [Hübner 1790-1793] [originally in Papilio], Lep. Linn.: 4 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 975

MYSIDAE Haworth 1825, Phil. Mag., 65: 184 (type genus: Mysis Latreille [1802]) (Crustacea, Mysidacea). Opinion 578 

MYSINA Burmeister 1837, Handb. Naturgesch. (2): 566 (type genus: Mysis Latreille [1802]) (an incorrect subsequent spelling for MYSIDAE Haworth 1825). Opinion 578 

Mysis Latreille [1802], in Sonnini’s Buffon, Hist. nat. gén. partic. Crust. Ins., 3: 36 (gender: feminine) (type species, by designation under the plenary power: Cancer oculatus Fabricius 1780, Fauna groenl.: 245, as interpreted by the neotype designated by Holmquist 1958 (Medd. om Grønl., 159(4): 7)) (Crustacea, Mysidacea). Opinion 578 

Mystacina Gray 1843, in Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, vol. 2, p. 296 (gender: feminine) (type species, by original designation: Mystacina tuberculata Gray 1843) (Mammalia). Opinion 1994 

Mystacops Lydekker 1891, in Flower & Lydekker, An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct, p. 671 (a junior objective synonym of Mystacina Gray 1843) (Mammalia). Opinion 1994

mysticetus Linnaeus 1758 [originally in Balaena], Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75 (specific name of the type species of Balaena Linnaeus 1758) (Mammalia). Direction 22

Mystus Scopoli 1777, Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae, p. 451 (gender: masculine), type species Bagrus halepensis Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 by subsequent designation by Jordan & Evermann 1917 (Osteichthyes) Opinion 2209  

Myteroxis Gozis 1886, Recherche de l’espèce typique de quelques anciens genres. Rectifications synonymiques et notes diverses, p. 14 (a junior objective synonym of Ischnosoma Stephens 1829) (Insecta, Coleoptera). Opinion 1726  

mytilaspidis Le Baron 1870 [originally in Aphelinus], American Entomologist and Botanist, 2: 360 (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Opinion 1405

mytili Dalyell 1848 [originally in Alcyonidium], Rare and remarkable animals of Scotland, represented from living subjects with practical observations on their nature, vol. 2, p. 36, as defined by the neotype (specimen no. BM(NH) 1994.4.5.1, collected from Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, and deposited in the Natural History Museum, London) designated under the plenary power (Bryozoa). Opinion 1892  

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

Mytiloides Bertrand 1763, Dict. Univ. Foss. Propres Foss. Accid., 2: 61 (included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes). Opinion 592

Mytilus Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 704 (gender: masculine) (type species, by designation by Anton 1839 (Verz. Conchyl. Samml. Anton: 17): Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 705) (Bivalvia). Opinion 94, Opinion 333

Myxine Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 650 (gender: feminine) (type species, by monotypy: Myxine glutinosa Linnaeus 1758, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 650) (Agnatha). Opinion 75