OPINION 184. 



ON THE STATUS OF NAMES FIRST PUBLISHED IN VOLUMES 

 1 TO 11 OF MARTINI (F. H. W.) AND CHEMNITZ (J. H.), 

 NEUES SYSTEMATISCHES CONCHYLIEN-CABINET, NÜRN- 

 BERG, 1769-1795. 



SÜMMARY. — For so long as generic names published by authors 

 using a System of nomenclature, which, though not binominal, is 

 of the type hitherto accepted as falling within the deflnition of 

 binary nomenclature,^ are accepted as complying with the require- 

 ments of Article 25 of the International Code, any new generic 

 name published in volumes 1 to 11 of Martini (F. H. W.) and 



Chemnitz (J. H.), Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, 



Nürnberg, 1769-1795, is to be accepted as available nomenclatori- 

 ally, provided that individually it satisfles the requirements of 

 the International Code. Thus, in order to be available as a generic 

 or subgeneric name, every such name (1) must be accompanied by 

 an indication as defined in Opinion 1 or by a deflnition or by a 

 description, (ii) if a name originally published before 1758, must 

 satisfy the requirements of Opinion 5, (iii) must not have been used 

 by Martini & Chemnitz as an intermediate term of the kind 

 rejected by Opinion 124, and (iv) must have been published in the 

 nominative Singular (Opinion 183). No new specific or subspecific 

 trivial name published in these volumes has any Status in nomen- 

 clature. The Position as respects generic names published in 

 these volumes will need to be re-examined if later it is decided to 

 reject generic names published by authors not applying the 

 binominal System. 



L— THE STATEMENT OF THE GASE. 



The present case was submitted to the International Commission 

 on Zoological Nomenclature by Dr. D. L. Frizzell, Dr. A. Myra 

 Keen and Dr. Hubert G. Schenck, Department of Geology, 



1 The question of the meaning to be attached to the term " binary 

 nomenclature" is at present sub judice as it was expressly referred by the 

 Twelfth International Congress of Zoology at its meeting held at I.isbon in 

 1935 to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for 

 deliberation and report. See paragraph (2) (i)-(iii) of the note reproduced 

 in Paragraph 5(b) of the present Opinion and 1943, Bull. zool. Nomencl. 

 1 : 45. 55- 



