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Volume 74, Issue 6

Judicial Opinion 130 Open Access

Abstract

Opinion 130 deals with a Request for an Opinion asking the Judicial Commission to clarify whether the genus name Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) is illegitimate. The Request is approved and an answer is given. The name Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) is illegitimate because it is a later homonym of the validly published cyanobacterial name Hansgirg 1884. The Judicial Commission also clarifies that it has the means to resolve such cases by conserving a name over an earlier homonym. It is concluded that the name Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) is significantly more important than the name Hansgirg 1884 and therefore the former is conserved over the latter. This makes the name Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980) legitimate.

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Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • National Biodiversity Future Center (IT) (Award CN00000033)
    • Principal Award Recipient: StefanoVentura
  • Australian Research Council (Award DP220100900)
    • Principal Award Recipient: MariaChuvochina
  • National Institute of Food and Agriculture (Award #PEN04926)
    • Principal Award Recipient: CaroleeT. Bull
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