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Requests Nigel Ainsworth Can
you please keep sending your reprints!! John AthersuchDoes
anyone know of studies on the Recent faunas of the Caspian (other than
Gofman)?
Can anyone send me copies of any
references by N.N. Naidina from the 1960’s onward on the Caspian? I
am interested in collaboration on the Pliocene-Recent Caspian faunas. Also, please keep me on your reprint list,
particularly for non-marine faunas of any age. Gerhard Becker Call
for discussion: Originally
(Trudy VNIGRI, 60), Polenova (1952) included two species in a new
genus, Gravia
aculeata Polenova, 1952 [selected as type species of Gravia Polenova,
1952 as well as G. (Gravia) Polenova, 1952] and Gravia volgaensis
Polenova, 1952. The
designated type species was, however, neither described nor figured
and is, therefore, clearly a nomen nudum (see “exclusions”; Art.
67g [ICZN 1985]. Later
(Trudy VNIGRI, 68), Polenova (1953) correctly described Gravia
aculeata Polenova, 1953 and confirmed its appointment as type species
(see “type fixation”, Art. 67b).
Subsequently, there are two opinions.
(1) Gravia Polenova, 1952 is typified by G. volgaensis (because
of monotypy, Art. 68d, ICZN 1985; however, concerning taxa-groups
established with only one originally included species).
(2) Uniquely, Gravia Polenova, 1953 and its type species Gravia
aculeata Polenova, 1953 are available (Art. 50, 21).
To clarify the contradiction which appears from time to time,
the writer appealed to one of the two German members of the
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, as quoted by
Adamczak and Becker (1983: 271): “Since the use of the names Gravia,
Graviinae or Graviidae have produced uncertainly, the second author
has asked Prof. O. Kraus (Hamburg) to decide this question.
From his statement (3.12.1982) it follows that the name Gravia
Polenova, 1952 is a nomen nudum (Art. 13a IRZN), whereas Gravia
Polenova, 1953 with the description and illustration of Gravia
aculeata Polenova, 1953 (Art. 68a, IRZN (Art. 68b)) is available.
In a like manner, it becomes also clear that the name Graviinae
(-idea) Polenova, 1952 is not available because it has (‘at that
time’, Art. 11e, IRZN (=Art. 11f)) been based on a not available
generic name.” In this
statement, the following circumstance is involved:
With respect to available names of the genus group, the
designation of a type species (the name-bearing type of a nominal
genus or subgenus [“typus designatus”]) is a sine-qua-non
requirement (“original designation”, Art. 68b, 73a (i)).
In no way, we are allowed to ignore the primary “intentio
autoris” . With respect
to these facts, authors who continue to use “Gravia 1952” are not
in accordance with the rules. Those
who continue to use Gravia volgaensis Polenova, 1952 as type species
are not in accordance with Polenova (1953).
This is especially the case with the Russian Treatise (1990:
84) and some recent German partisans.
According to Rud. Richter (1948: 139, 173; Kramer, Frankfurt am
Main) “an unquestionable and unambiguous genero-type must be
presented for names published after 31.12.1930—expressis verbis,
with particular emphasis… After this, there are not further
questions”. This
applies exactly to Polenova (1953) (“G. aculeata Polenova, 1952”
in Polenova, 1953: 27 is clearly an error). Joao
Carlos Coimbra
I
have a great interest in papers about phylogenetic studies on Recent
and fossil ostracods. Besides,
I am very interested in any paper about South American Atlantic
ostracods. Gabriela
C Cusminsky
is interested in contacting colleagues on lacustrine Tertiary and
Quaternary Ostracoda, as well as with research on Recent lacustrine
Ostracoda. Alicia E. Echevarria, as always, will acknowledge receipt of reprints related to Cenozoic marine and mixohaline Ostracoda. Laura
Ferrero
would like to receive publications on the systematics and ecology of
Quaternary and Recent freshwater, mixohaline, and marine Ostracoda,
particularly Limnocytheridae and Cytheruridae. Roger
Kaesler
The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology needs to maintain its library of paleontological literature. Please send reprints of all your work, and ask your colleagues to do so, too. I am interested in the morphology of the late Paleozoic
ostracods Amphissites centronotus, a particularly long-ranged species.
If you have any specimens, please contact me by email. Ivana
Karanovic
has been working with ostracods for a few years and has published
three papers (see Bibliography), and six more papers are in press. She is now in a position to ask for help and offer her
services. She has been
living in Italy since the war in Yugoslavia and is currently
unemployed. In Italy she
has a microscope (Leica DMLS with drawing tube attachment), a good
ostracode library, computer, and valuable ostracode reference
material, the latter collected in Serbia and Montenegro.
She would appreciate knowing about any sort of grant or
contract, and is willing to offer her services in work dealing with
ostracode research all over the world. Eugen
K. Kempf
would like to receive from all ostracodologists reprints of their
papers soon after publication for inclusion in the Cologne Database
Ostracoda. Cordial thanks
to all those who did so in the past.
Unpublished parts of the Cologne Database Ostracoda will be
sent in exchange.
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