Claire Voisin

Case 3482 Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820 and Licmetis pastinator Gould, 1841 (currently Cacatua tenuirostris and Cacatua pastinator; Aves, Psittaciformes): conservation of usage by designation of a neotype for Psittacus tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 75.6 of the Code, is to conserve prevailing usage of the species group names tenuirostris Kuhl, 1820 and pastinator Gould, 1841, long employed for the southeastern and respetive south-western species of Australian long-billed corellas, genus Cacatua Vieillot, 1817. The only apparently traceable syntype of tenuirostris Kuhl has been found to be of the southwestern species; the resulting nomenclatural shift would destabilise established usage and confound past and future references to the name in literature. To conserve the long-accustomed use of tenuirostris Kuhl for the southeastern corella and to maintain pastinator Gould as the valid name for the southwestern long-billed corella, we propose that the only known syntype of tenuirostris Kuhl be set aside and replaced with a neotype of the southeastern species.

Case 3491 Podargus cornutus Temminck, 1822 (currently Batrachostomus cornutus; Aves, podargidae): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by designation of a neotype

Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 75.6 of the Code, is to conserve the accustomed usage of the name cornutus Temminck, 1822 for the Sumatran population of the southeast Asian species currently named Batrachostomus javensis (Horsfield, 1821) (Aves, podargidae). To this end, we ask that Temmincks action in proposing the replacement of Horsfields name javensis with cornutus be set aside so that cornutus does not become a junior objective synonym of javensis (type locality in Java) and that the Sumatran specimen which Temminck actually described as cornutus be designated as its neotype. This would establish cornutus for the Sumatran form for which it has been in use for over 70 years as the subspecific name.