Closure of Cases

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Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 64(4) December 2007 269
Closure of cases
The following cases, for which receipt as new applications to the Commission were
published though the cases were never published in full, are now closed:
ixoDiDAE Bonaparte, 1838 (Aves, Passeriformes): proposed emendment ofspelling to
ixosiDAE to remove homonymy with ixodidae C.L. Koch, 1844 (Acari, Parasiti-
formes). J.E. Keirans & W.J. Bock (Case 3391; acknowledgement of receipt
BZN
published in 63: 154).
Neoromicia Roberts, 1926 (Mammalia, vespertilionidae): proposed correction of
gender. M. Riccucci & B. Lanza (Case 3397; acknowledgement ofreceipt pubhshed
BZN
in 63: 221).
Tragolytoceras Spath, 1924 (Mollusca, Cephalopoda): proposed conservation. J.
Palfy&R. Tomas(Case 3409; acknowledgementofreceiptpublishedin BZN64: 78).
Dasyatis americana Hildebrand & Schroeder, 1927 (Chondrichthyes, Myliobati-
formes, dasyatidae): proposed conservation. H.R.S. Santos & M.R. de Carvalho
(Case 3411; acknowledgement ofreceipt published in BZN 64: 78).
John Latham's Siipplementum Indicis ornithologici sive Systematis Ornithologiae':
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proposed determination ofdate ofpublication. R. Schodde, W.J. Bock, W.E. Boles,
L. Christidis & F. Steinheimer (Case 3414: acknowledgement ofreceipt published in
BZN
64: 78)
Megalopta ecuadoria Friese, 1926 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): proposed conservation of
the name over Megalopta centralis Friese, 1926. W.T. Wcislo & S.M. Tierney (Case
3421: acknowledgement of receipt published in BZN 64: 137)
Chaetocnema Stephens, 1831 (Insecta, Coleoptera): proposed conservation of
usage by designation of Altica hortensis Geoffroy, 1785 as the type species. V.V.
Grebennikov, A.S. Konstantinov & S.W. Lingafelter (Case 3423: acknowledgement
BZN
of receipt published in 64: 138)
The following published cases are now closed:
Curculio assimilis Paykull, 1789 (currently Ceutorhynchus assimilis; Insecta, Coleop-
tera): proposed conservation ofthe specific name. (Case 3298; acknowledgement of
receipt published in BZN 60: 262; case published in BZN 63: 31-32.
D.V. Alford submitted a proposal to conserve the specific name assimilis Paykull,
1789. The fact that the name was already both conserved and designated as the type
species of Ceutorhynchus in 1989, under Opinion 1529 (Case 2219) had been
overlooked.
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Pachyramplnis G.R. Gray, 1840 (Aves, Passeriformes): proposed conservation. (Case
3347; acknowledgement ofreceipt published in BZN 62: 125; case published in BZN
63: 194-196).
S.M.S. Gregory, E.G. Dickinson and F.D. Steinheimer submitted a proposal to
conserve the generic name Pachyramplnis Gray, 1840. After careful consideration of
all available facts by the Commission, theyhaveconcluded that no ruling is necessary
for the problem discussed in the Case, and the authors have withdrawn it.