Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. [Book series, initial set of 4 volumes]. vol I. A-C. II. D-L. III. M-P. IV. Q-Z. V supplement (1945). vol VI. (1955). vol IX (1996).
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Neave, Sheffield Airey
1939-1996
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A List of the Names of Genera and Subgenera in Zoology from the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935
[Book series, initial set of 4 volumes]
vol I. A-C. II. D-L. III. M-P. IV. Q-Z. V supplement (1945). vol VI. (1955). vol IX (1996)
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). This record is for the hardcopy printed volumes, not the modern online database. A contemporary review by Myers (1940) is in Copeia, DOI: 10.2307/1439031. Indication of subgenera rank and their genus placement was not included until volume 9. Volume 10 is online only (q.v. aphia 4181).
Editor's preface [begins] "The scope and plan of the work. THIS work constitutes an attempt to give as complete a record as possible of the bibliographical origins of the name of every genus or subgenus in zoology that has been published since 1758, the date of the 10th Edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, up to the end of the year 1935. It does not contain the names to be found in works that have been excluded by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (vide opinions 51, 72, 8g, etc.), nor does it include clearly hypothetical ones. Owing, however, to the absence from the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature of any clear definition of what constitutes publication, I have been compelled, with some reluctance, to include names that appear in privately printed works. The work also contains a great number of variations of spelling, whether deliberate or accidental, that have occurred in all primary publications during the same period, though it does not profess to be by any means complete in this respect. It does not, however, include the many errors that are necessarily to be found in secondary publications, such as earlier Nomenclators, and works of reference, such as the Zoological Record. Exceptions to this are the cases in which deliberate emendations of a name were made by the author or editor of such works, e.g., the many examples in Agassiz' Index Universalis, and the cases in some of the earlier volumes of the Zoological Record in which certain Recorders deliberately altered names, possibly to accord with their own views of classical derivation. […]"