Talk:Rhynchonkos

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Did you know... that the Early Permian microsaur Rhynchonkos (pictured) shares many similarities with Eocaecilia, and may be an ancestor of caecilians?

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Rhynchonkidae[edit]

To quote myself plus Michel Laurin:

Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999), family names remain valid if they are based on genus names that have been sunk into synonymy. The nomenclature of lepospondyls contains no less than three such cases: Gymnarthridae Case, 1910, is named after a junior synonym of Cardiocephalus Broili, 1904, Brachystelechidae Carroll & Gaskill, 1978, after a junior synonym of Batropetes Carroll & Gaskill, 1971, and Cocytinidae Cope, 1875, after a junior synonym of Brachydectes Cope, 1868. Perhaps by analogy, Ruta et al. (2003), Carroll (2007 and earlier), and Anderson (2008) continued to use the name Goniorhynchidae Carroll & Gaskill, 1978, for the monotypic family that contains Rhynchonkos stovalli (Olson, 1970). However, Goniorhynchus Olson, 1970, is not a junior synonym of Rhynchonkos; instead, Rhynchonkos Schultze & Foreman, 1981, is a replacement name for Goniorhynchus Olson, 1970, which was preoccupied by the beetle Goniorhynchus Hampson, 1896. If a taxon is to be named Goniorhynchidae, it must have the valid genus Goniorhynchus, not the invalid one, as its type; therefore, Goniorhynchidae Carroll & Gaskill, 1978, has always been invalid and should never have been erected (ICZN 1999: art. 39). Accordingly, Zanon (1988) coined the replacement name Rhynchonkidae. This is the name that should be used if one is not content to refer to the only known genus and species directly by their own names.

I was wrong in calling Goniorhynchus a beetle – it's a moth. I'll mention this in the errata section of my next-or-so paper.

Incidentally, the quoted paper is in open access, but the publisher's website has been down ("en cours de rénovation") all year (so much for "prochainement"). I've therefore linked to BioOne, which may not let you access the paper for free – so if anyone wants to read it and can't get it, tell me.

I'll now go change "Goniorhynchidae" to "Rhynchonkidae" in the Tuditanomorpha template.

David Marjanović (talk) 19:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]