On the grammatical gender of Aptyxis Troschel, 1884 (Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae)

• Autores: Paolo Russo
• Localización: Bollettino Malacologico, ISSN 0394-7149, Nº. 52, 1, 2016, pág. 76
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • L'art. 31.2. of the current code of zoological nomenclature states that a species name is a Latin or latinised adjective in the nominative singular and that its grammatical gender must agree with the name of the genus it belongs to.

    Recently Murex syracusanus L., 1758 and Fusinus luteopictus (Dall, 1877) traditionally assigned to the genus Fusinus Rafinesque, 1815, was moved (Russo, 2016) to the genus Aptyxis Troschel, 1868, originally defined by its author as a subgenus of Latirus Monfort, 1810.

    This name was treated as masculine by Monterosato, 1884 (as Aptysis: a spelling mistake), Grabau, 1904, Pallary, 1919, Coen, 1933 (Aptyxis syracusanus var.

    abbreviata Coen, 1933) and by various websites such as Encyclopedia of Life, World Register of Marine Species and Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

    But the name aptyxis is femminine, being derived from the Neolatin ptyxis, femminine, in turn derived from the Greek pt?? [-????, ?], meaning fold, which is also femminine and accompanied by the prefix "a-", meaning without fold [on columella].

    This was only noticed by Abbott (1954) and the website Integrated Digitized Biocollections.

    The correct name is therefore Aptyxis siracusana (L., 1758) and Aptyxis luteopicta (Dall, 1877).