Taxacom: A new genus described instead of making nomen nudum available

[Mikhail Daneliya]

Thank you, Francisco!

Sorry for making a long story, but anyway it is clear now.

Best wishes,
Mikhail

On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, 19:24 Francisco Welter-Schultes via Taxacom, <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Dear mikhai,
> from what you wrote, if I did not misunderstand or miss anything, your
> conclusions seem to be correct.
> Yes, zoologists are free to select any name they like. The 2020 authors
> could have made Birsteiniamysis available, but they decided to select a
> different name.
>
> If this helps.
>
> Best wishes
> Francisco
>
> Am 25.02.2022 um 17:34 schrieb Mikhail Daneliya via Taxacom:
> > Dear colleagues,
> > I have another interesting case in my crustacean group. I hope you can
> > clarify my confusion.
> >
> > *Birsteiniamysis* first mentioned in a book of abstracts (Tchindonova,
> > 1979), without a reference to species and without description.
> >
> > *Birsteiniamysis* gen.n. mentioned in Tchindonova (1981), with reference
> to
> > three species, without type species designation, without description.
> >
> > The staff of the Zoogical Society of London (1985) noticed that no type
> > species was designated for *Birsteiniamysis*.
> >
> > *Birsteiniamysis* gen.n. mentioned in Tchindonova (1993), with reference
> to
> > three species, with diagnosis, but without type species designation.
> >
> > *Birsteiniamysis* Tchindonova, 1979 (or 1981) used by many authors as
> valid.
> >
> > Petryashov (2014) mentioned *Birsteiniamysis inermis* (W.-Suhm, 1874) as
> > the type species of *Birsteiniamysis* Tchindonova, 1979, neither
> providing
> > a description, nor referring to Tchindonova (1993).
> >
> > Hendrickx et al. (2020) do not consider Petryashev (2014) as valid
> > designator, and describe a new genus *Neobirsteiniamysis* Hendrickx &
> > Tchindonova, 2019 in Hendrickx et al. (2020) (without “gen. nov.”), with
> > the type species *Petalophthalmus inermis *Willemoes-Suhm, 1874. Only
> > online; not registered with Zoobank.
> >
> > Hendrickx & Tchindonova (2020) correct themselves describing
> > *Neobirsteiniamysis* gen. nov., with the type species *Petalophthalmus
> > inermis *Willemoes-Suhm, 1875, and register it with Zoobank.
> >
> > I would make Birsteiniamysis available, but why do the colleagues decide
> > otherwise? Is everything fine here, and people can do whatever they like?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Mikhail Daneliya
> > Finland
> >
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