. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 320 Bulletin qf Zoological Nomenclature SUPPORT FOR MR. FRANCIS HEMMING'S PROPOSAL FOR THE COR- RECTION IN THE " OFFICIAL LIST OF GENERIC NAMES IN ZOOLOGY " OF THE ERRONEOUS ENTRY IN " OPINION " 104 RELATING TO THE NAME "PENAEUS" FABRICIUS, 1798 (CLASS CRUSTACEA, ORDER DECAPODA) By L. B. HOLTHUIS (Rijksiuuneuni van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (Commission's reference (S.)566) (Enclosure to letter dated 6th July 1951) It was most unfortunate that in Opinion 104 of the International Commission on Zoologica
. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 320 Bulletin qf Zoological Nomenclature SUPPORT FOR MR. FRANCIS HEMMING'S PROPOSAL FOR THE COR- RECTION IN THE " OFFICIAL LIST OF GENERIC NAMES IN ZOOLOGY " OF THE ERRONEOUS ENTRY IN " OPINION " 104 RELATING TO THE NAME "PENAEUS" FABRICIUS, 1798 (CLASS CRUSTACEA, ORDER DECAPODA) By L. B. HOLTHUIS (Rijksiuuneuni van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The Netherlands) (Commission's reference (S.)566) (Enclosure to letter dated 6th July 1951) It was most unfortunate that in Opinion 104 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature the invalid generic name Peneus (emended to Penacus) Weber, 1795, and not the valid name Fabricius, 1798, for the same genus, was jjlaced on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology. Until the introduction of ^Veber's names into carcinology by Miss Rathbun in 1904, the name Penaeus was always attributed to Fabricius. Moreo\er after 1904, and even after 1928 (the year in which Opinion 104 publisheil), most authors, including the foremost specialist of Penacidea, Dr. Martin D. Biukenroad, continued to cite Fabricius as the author of the name Penaeus. As the generic name Penaeus Fabricius (a) is generally accepted denoting a genus of shrimps which is of great economic importance all over the world, (6) is the only available name for that genus, and (c) was originally published in the orthography (Penaeus) which has been officially recognised as the correct form, whereas the generic name Peneits Weber (i) has been used by very few authors, (ii) is invalid from a nomenclatorial point of view, and (iii) was originally published in an orthography (Peneus) which differs from that generally used in the name employed to denote this genus and one which moreover has now been ruled (in Opinion 104) to be incorrect, I can only come to the conclusion that Mr. Hemming's proposal that the name Penaeus Fabricius, 1798, shoukl bo ijlaced on the Official Lis
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