194 Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 63(3) September2006 Case 3347 Pachyramphus Gray, 1840 (Aves, Passeriformes): proposed conservation of usage of the generic name Steven M.S. Gregory 35 Monarch Road. Northampton, Northamptonshire NN2 6EH. U.K. (e-mail: [email protected]) Edward C. Dickinson Flat 3, Bolsover Court. 19 Bolsover Road, Eastbourne. BN20 7JG. U.K. (e-mail: [email protected]) Frank D. Steinheimer Sylter Strasse 18, Niirnberg, 90425 Germany (e-mail: [email protected]) Abstract. The purpose of this apphcation, under Article 23.9.3 of the Code, is to conserve the accustomed usage ofthe name Pachyramphus Gray, 1840 for a genus of cotinga from Centra! and South America, bythedesignation ofTityra viridisVieillot, 1816 as the type species oiPachyramphus (family cotingidae, or family tyrannidae, subfamily tityrinae). It is also proposed that the name Pachyramphus Gray, 1839 and all uses ofthe name before 1840 are suppressed. The name Pachyramphus relates to a group of some 16 species of cotinga known as becards with a widespread distribution throughout Central and South America; Pachyramphus viridis is the green-backed becard from northern South America. Keywords. Nomenclature; taxonomy; Aves; Passeriformes; cotingidae; tyrannidae; tityrinae; Tityra; Pachyrhynchus; Pachyramphus; Tityra viridis; Lauius cayamis; Central America; South America; cotingas; becards. 1. Pacliyramphus was originally proposed by Gray (in Gould, 1839, p. 50) as a replaceinent name (nomen novum) for Pachyrhynchus Spix, 1825, itself a junior synonym and homonym of Pachyrhynchus Wagler (in Hahn, 1822, pi. 6 and text) (suppressed in Opinion 928, August 1970) and a synonym of Tityra Vieillot, 1816a (p. 39). The type species of Pachyramphus Gray, 1839 is therefore Lanius cayanus Linnaeus, 1766 (also the type species of Tityra Vieillot, 1816) (Article 67.8). 2. In 1840 Gray (p. 31) again used Pachyramphus, in what has become the estabhshed and accepted citation, with the single included new combination of 'P. Cuvieri (Swains.)', which is the type species by monotypy of Pachvramplms Gray, 1840. 3. Psaris cuvierii Swainson, 1821 (pi. 32 and text) is a junior synonym of Tityra viridis Vieillot, 1816b (p. 348). Bulletin ofZoological Nomenclature 63(3) September 2006 195 4. Laniiis cayanus Linnaeus, 1766 and Tityra viridis Vieillot, 1816 are presently assigned to two currently recognized genera of cotinga, Tityra Vieillot, 1816a and Pachyramphiis Gray, 1840 respectively. 5. Usage of Pachyramphiis Gray, 1840, both long term and current, is demon- strated bythefollowingpubhcations: Bonaparte(1850, p. 180), Sclater(1862, p. 240), Sclater (1888. p. 337), Salvin & Godman (1890, p. 124), Brabourne & Chubb (1912, p. 315), Hellmayr (1929, p. 163), Pinto (1944), Wetmore (1972, pp. 273-286), Peterson & Chalif(1973, p. 138), Ridgely (1976, pp. 224-226), Wolters (1977, p. 170), Snow (1979, p. 229), Sibley & Monroe (1990, p. 368), Sick (1993, p. 484), Ridgely & Tudor (1994, p. 676), American Ornithologists' Union (1998, p. 417), Rodner, Lentino & Restall (2000, p. 83) and Dickinson (2003, p. 344). To the best of our knowledge, Pachyramphiis Gray, 1839 has not been used since the time ofits original publication. 6. It is proposed that the name Pachyramphiis Gray, 1839 be suppressed, and Tityra viridisVieillot, 1816 be recorded as the specific name ofthe senior synonym of the type species ofPachyramphiis Gray, 1840. 7. The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is accordingly asked: (1) to useits plenarypowerto suppressPachyramphiisGray, 1839 forthepurposes ofboth the Principle of Priority and the Principle of Homonymy and all uses ofthe name before Gray (1840); (2) to place on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology the name Pachyramphiis Gray, 1840 (gender: masculine), type species by monotypy Psaris ciivierii Swainson, 1821,junior synonym of Tityra viridis Vieillot, 1816; (3) to place on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology the name viridis Vieillot, 1816, as published in the binomen Tityra viridis (senior synonym of Psaris ciivierii Swainson, 1821, specific name of the type species of Pachyramphiis Gray, 1840); (4) to place on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology the name Pachyramphiis Gray, 1839, as suppressed in (1) above. References American Ornithologists' Union. 1998. 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