I've been looking into this one and am preparing a paper on the
nomenclatural legalities.  Opalia borealis is still nude in Carpenter
1864.  Carpenter provides a valid description in Annals and Magazine
of Natural History in 1865, from which the species should be cited, as
Opalia borealis Carpenter ex Gould 1865.  Scalaria borealis Lyell 1841
(not Beck, not 1839, not 1842) is from Transactions of the Geological
Society of London 2(6):135-141 and is also nude.  So far as I can
tell, borealis was never validated for the what-is-now-an-Acirsa
species, so the valid name should be Acirsa eschrichti (Holböll in
Möller 1842).

Bruce Neville
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, David Campbell<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Opalia borealis Carpenter, 1864 (ex Gould) was described by Carpenter, 1864
>> and is not a nude name there.
>
> Probably some problems with the definition of "nude" are
> involved-unfortunately, it's often misused to mean "less than
> satisfactory description" rather than genuinely legally unavailable.
> I have not gone back to DuShane to check the justification of claiming
> that it was nude in Carpenter.
>
>> I am unable to locate a "borealis 'Beck' Lyell, 1842" and a clue to it would
>> be appreciated.
>
> The cited date for the Lyell name varies from about 1839 to 1842.
> Lyell certainly cites Scalaria borealis in lists, invoking Beck, but I
> haven't tracked down any more detailed mention.  One source seemed to
> suggest that Lyell had figured it without a name and then later
> published the name with reference back to the figure, but I have not
> yet tracked down original publications to confirm this-a bibliography
> of Lyell would help.  Another made reference to a Lyell paper on the
> elevation of Sweden, but I was not able to locate the original
> reference (abbreviated citation in a synonomy, which is usually as
> much of a citation as one gets in the 1800's).
>
> --
> Dr. David Campbell
> 425 Scientific Collections
> University of Alabama
> "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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