Dear Paul,
the quote in Poppe & Goto on what they call "Naticarius cruentatus" is an
incorrect representation of the taxonomic situation. While it is true that
Martyn's 1784 work in principle has been rejected, a few names have been
excluded from this action. One such name is "Nerita hebraea Martyn, 1784",
found on plate 109 in this work.
 
In 1994  I wrote a brief piece on taxonomical problems in the Naticidae
section of Poppe & Goto's "European Seashells" and published this in "The
Festivus", the journal of the San Diego Shell Club (The Festivus 26: 23-25). I
quote from this paper:
 
"Naticarius cruentatus (Gmelin, 1791) [p. 37, 119, pl. 16, figs. 18-20] is a
junior synonym of Naticarius hebraeus (Martyn, 1784), a name which has been
declared a nomen conservandum in Opinion 1662/1992 of the International
Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) in spite of its publication in a
work rejected by ICZN Opinion 457/1957 for not being consistently binomial.
Therefore, this species has to be called Naticarius hebraeus (Martyn, 1784).
(Poppe & Goto's book was published in 1991, when this information was not yet
available)."
 
Regards,
Michael
 
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>>Hi Folks, especially you taxonomy wizzards -
 
>>The following excerpt is from the description of Naticarius cruentatus
>>(Gmelin, 1791), in Poppe & Goto's European Seashells, Volume 1:
 
>>"N. hebraeus (Martyn, 1784) is the oldest name for the species, but >>all
names given by Martyn - except some for species from New Zealand - >>have been
rejected by the International Commission for Zoological >>Nomenclature."
 
>>Question - What did the poor fellow do that prompted the ICZN to
>>unilaterally throw out all the species names assigned by him?  And, >>what
was different about those New Zealand names?
 
>>Regards,
>>Paul M.
>>Rhode Island
 
 
 
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