Notes on the taxonomy and nomenclature of some European freshwater fishes

Abstract

Lethenteron zanandreai is placed in Lampetra. Acipenser naccarii, A. oxyrinchus and Perca acerina are declared nomina protecta. Acipenser heckelii, Sturio accipenser, A. lichtensteinii and Perm tanaicensis are declared nomina oblita. Neotypes are designated for A. sturio and Cobitis albicoloris. The only known extant museum specimen of the extinct Coregonus bezola is recorded. Atherina Ingunae and A. punctata of Trabelsi et al. (2002) are unavailable names; A. punctata would anyway be a junior homonym of A. punctata Bennett, 1833. Lectotypes are designated for A. boyeri, Sahno schiefermuelleri and Cobitis bulgarica. The spelling of the family-group name Odontobutidae is clarified. Nomenclature of various species of Scardinius, Sahno, Salvelinus and Coregonus is discussed. The nomenclature and spelling of Gymnocephalus acerina and G. cernua are reviewed. © 2009 by Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany - ISSN 0936-9902.