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AS from January 23, 1953, the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature will start to vote on the following cases involving the possible use of its plenary powers for the purposes specified in brackets against each entry. Full particulars of these cases were published on July 23, 1952, in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, those relating to cases (1) to (4) in Part 8 and those relating to cases (5) to (10) in Part 9 of Vol. 6. (1) Ancylus Müller, 1774 (Cl. Gastropoda) (designation of type species); (2) atrox Baird and Girard, 1853, Crotalus (Cl. Reptilia, Ord. Squamata) (validation); (3) polysticta Cope, 1865, Caudisona (Cl. Reptilia, Ord. Squamata) (validation); (4) Palæopsylla Wagner, 1903 (Cl. Insecta, Ord. Siphonaptera) (designation of type species); (5) Heterandria Agassiz, 1853 (Cl. Osteichthyes) (designation of type species); (6) Lobacantha Kirby, 1837 (Cl. Insecta, Ord. Coleoptera) (suppression, to validate Platypria Guérin, 1840); (7) tereticauda Eschscholtz, 1833, Triton (Cl. Amphibia) (suppression, to validate lugubris Hallowell, 1849, Salamandra); (8) Euryrhynchus Miers, 1877 (Cl. Crustacea, Ord. Decapoda) (validation); (9) Pontonia Latreille, 1829 (Cl. Crustacea, Ord. Decapoda) (designation of type species); (10) Martyn, 1784, Universal Conchologist (Ph. Mollusca) (validation of following trivial names published in: arabicum; canaliculus; crenata; denticulata; granosus; haustrum; heliotropum; iris; linea; maculosum; opalus; papulosum; punctulatus; purpurata; smaragdus; sulcatus; tigris; vermis).
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HEMMING, F. Zoological Nomenclature. Nature 170, 503 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170503c0
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