Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt & Lutken, 1862)

Myers, Charles W., Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut & Vanzolini, Paulo E., 2011, Status of Early 19 th-Century Names Authored in Parallel by Wied and Schinz for South American Reptiles and Amphibians, with Designations of Three Nomina Protecta, American Museum Novitates 2011 (3714), pp. 1-24 : 12-13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3714.2

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scientific name

Micrablepharus maximiliani
status

 

Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt and Lütken, “1861” [1862])

As explained above, Scincus cyanurus Schinz, 1822 , is the senior name (Wied’s “ Gymnophthalmus quadrilineatus ” was a misidentification). To our knowledge, Scincus cyanurus Schinz “has not been used as a valid name after 1899” ( ICZN, 1999: art. 23.9.1.1). The junior name Gymnophthalmus maximiliani Reinhardt and Lütken , “1861” [1862]—known since 1885 as Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt and Lütken, “1861” [1862])—has been used as a “presumed valid name, in at least 25 works, published by at least 10 authors in the immediately preceding 50 years and encompassing a span of not less than 10 years” ( ICZN, 1999: art. 23.9.1.2).

The following 25 references meet the criteria quoted above: Ávila-Pires, 1995; Castoe et al., 2004; Cunha, 1961; Freire, 1996; Mesquita et al., 2006; Moreira et al., 2009; Nogueira et al., 2009; Pellegrino et al., 2001; Peters and Donoso-Barros, 1970; Presch, 1980; Rodrigues, 1996, 2003; Rodrigues et al., 2005, 2007; Shepard, 2007; Teixeira et al., 1999; Vanzolini, 1977 b, 1981, 2003; Vanzolini and Carvalho, 1991; Vanzolini et al., 1980; Vitt, 1991b; Werneck and Colli, 2006; Williams and Vanzolini, 1980; Yonenaga-Yassuda and Rodrigues, 1999.

Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt and Lütken, “1861” [1862]), the younger but valid name for the species, is here designated as a nomen protectum. It has precedence over the senior name Scincus cyanurus Schinz, 1822 , which is here qualified as a nomen oblitum, and over the unavailable name Gymnophthalmus quadrilineatus sensu Wied, 1825 (non Linnaeus nec sensu Merrem), which was a misidentification in the sense of the Code ( ICZN 1999: art. 49).

Qualifying Scincus cyanurus Schinz, 1822 , as a nomen oblitum also solves the problem of homonymy with the later-named Scincus cyanurus Lesson, 1826 —a wide-spread Pacific skink currently known as Emoia cyanura (Lesson) (see p. 8).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gymnophthalmidae

Genus

Micrablepharus

Loc

Micrablepharus maximiliani

Myers, Charles W., Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut & Vanzolini, Paulo E. 2011
2011
Loc

Scincus cyanurus

Lesson 1826
1826
Loc

Gymnophthalmus quadrilineatus

sensu Wied 1825
1825
Loc

Scincus cyanurus

Schinz 1822
1822
Loc

Scincus cyanurus

Schinz 1822
1822
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