Epinephele
| Number: | 10087.0 | |
|---|---|---|
| Author: | Hübner | |
| Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103196#page/66/mode/2up | |
| Family: | Nymphalidae | |
| Genus: | Epinephele | |
| Journal: | Verz. bekannt. Schmett. | |
| Year: | 1819 | |
| Homonym Count: | 1.0 | |
| Page: | 59 | |
| Ref Id: | 2846.0 | |
| Status: | Available name | |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae | |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea | |
| Tribe: | Satyrini | |
| Type Country: | See BHL scanned Type-species page | |
| Type Des Ref Id: | 783.0 | |
| Type Des: | by subsequent designation by | |
| Type Des Author: | Butler | |
| Type Des Year: | 1868 | |
| Type Des Journal: | Ent. mon. Mag. | |
| Type Des Title: | Entomologists Monthly Magazine | |
| Type Des Volume: | 4 | |
| Type Des Part: | (45) | |
| Type Des Page: | 194 | |
| Type Sp Author: | Linnaeus | |
| Type Sp Bhl Page: | http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/496/mode/2up | |
| Type Sp Journal: | Systema Naturae | |
| Type Sp Page: | 475 | |
| Type Sp Series: | (Edn 10) | |
| Type Sp Volume: | 1 | |
| Type Sp Year: | 1758 | |
| Type Sp Ref Id: | 3527.0 | |
| Type Sp Genus: | Papilio | |
| Type Sp: | janira | |
| Memo Links: | ['http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/Lamas_Genera_04ii08.xls', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127039', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphalidae', 'http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=EPINEPHELE'] | |
| Memo: | Hemming (1967) stated:- On the same page (: 475) as that on which the name Papilio janira was first published, Linnaeus published also the name Papilio jurtina, which systematists are agreed applies to the female of the species to the male of which Linnaeus had given the name janira. On the basis of this subjective synonymy, the question arose which of these names should be used as the name for the species in question and which should be sunk as a junior subjective synonym or treated as the name of a different subspecies of the same species. Both these names have been extensively used as the specific name for the collective species ; the name janira was predominantly so employed for about a hundred years but in the last third of the XIXth century the so-called principle of page precedence began to attract an increasing number of adherents with the result that the name janira was widely displaced by the name jurtina Linnaeus, Species No. 104, as contrasted with janira which was his Species No. 106. Throughout the XIXth century the name jurtina was used to the virtual exclusion of the name janira. This matter was re-examined by myself shortly after the Copenhagen Congress of 1953, when the First Reviser principle was definitely adopted, my purpose being to ascertain who had been the First Reviser in this case and when and where that First Reviser choice had been made. This investigation showed that a definite First Reviser choice of janira as a name to take precedence over the name jurtina had been made by Fabricius as early as 1778 (Mantissa Ins. 2 : 44). Thus, under the Code the specific name janira was due to replace the name jurtina, thereby overthrowing the practice of the previous eighty years. The prospect of confusion arising from this pointless piece of name-changing was considered so objectionable that it was decided to seek the assistance of the Commission. The application so agreed upon was submitted to the Commission in June 1956 and was published in October of the same year (Hemming, 1956, Bull. zool. Nom. 12 : 279-286). In this application the Commission was asked to give directions under its Plenary Powers that the specific name jurtina Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the combination Papilio jurtina, was to be accorded precedence over the name janira Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the combination Papilio janira. This application was approved by the Commission which promulgated its decision in its Opinion 506 (1958, Opin. int. Comm. zool. Nom. 18 : 177-196). In this Opinion the specific name jurtina Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the above combination and endorsed as a name having precedence over the name janira Linnaeus, 1758, also published in combination with the generic name Papilio, was placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology as Name No. 1492. On the same Official List the name janira Linnaeus, 1758, as published in the combination Papilio janira, endorsed as a name taking precedence below the name jurtina Linnaeus, 1758, as published in combination with the same generic name, was also placed, with the Name No. 1493. Thus, on the basis of the subjective identification of the nominal species discussed above the oldest available name subjectively applicable to the type-species of the genus Epinephele Hübner is Papilio jurtina Linnaeus, 1758. The higher classification used here follows Lamas (2008). |
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