[Taxacom] Family Chilodontidae - unresolved homonyminCharaciformes and Gastropoda?

[Dan Lahr]

Hi all,

I'm a bit confused. Why is Chilodontidae not pre-occupied by the
ciliate family name? At the time these were treated as animals
(Infusoria), insn't this provisioned by Article 2? I know it gets more
complicated when protists come into the picture, but that is where my
interest lies...

Dan


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:
> Gary Rosenberg wrote:
>
>>Chilodontidae is a justified emendation, so it dates from the
>>original publication as Chilodidae in 1912 (ICZN Code Article 19.2).
>>Chilodidae should not be used for the fish family, because it is not
>>in prevailing usage (Article 29.5). Chilodontidae should be used for
>>both families; resolution of the homonymy in this set of
>>circumstances requires an ICZN ruling (Article 55.3).
>
> I agree with Gary's interpretation of this case, exactly as stated
> above. While the Code does not operate on precedent, a recent case
> involving two family names "Dasypodidae" ended up being resolved by
> taking the junior name and declaring the entire genus name to be the
> "stem", so the genus Dasypoda is now the type genus of the family
> Dasypodaidae (the other genus was Dasypus). A similar approach in
> this case would lead the mollusc family to become Chilodontaidae.
> That might be the least disruptive approach.
>
> It will require some interested parties to take time to carefully
> document the history of the usage of both names, and prepare a formal
> submission to the ICZN, but it's necessary. Gary's already done a
> fair bit of the crucial stuff above. ;-)
>
> Sincerely,
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Daniel Lahr
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