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Issue: Vol. 21 No. 1: 3 June 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-06-03
DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.21.1.7
Page range: 117–119
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It is high time that taxonomists follow the Code. 2. The Virgotyphlops case (Serpentes, Typhlopidae

Association RACINE, 5 allée des Cygnes, 35750 Saint Maugan, France
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 30, F-75005, Paris, France
Serpentes Typhlopidae

Abstract

Wallach (2020a: 10) erected a new genus Virgotyphlops for the typhlopid snake species Eryx braminus Daudin, 1803, which had previously been referred by Hedges et al. (2014) to their genus Indotyphlops. Unfortunately, this new generic nomen is nomenclaturally unavailable, and should therefore not be used as valid as long as it has not been properly published.

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