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- Title
Bibliographische Hintergründe zur kuriosen nomenklatorischen Geschichte der Taurischen Eidechse, nunmehr Podarcis tauricus (Georgi, 1801).
- Authors
Schmidtler, Josef F.
- Abstract
The extensive scientific, economic and cultural research north of the Black Sea and in Siberia at the end of the 18th century was the result of the Russian expansions of the empire by Catherine the Great.The corresponding publications were intended to consolidate the new acquisitions. One of the researchersin this context was Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729– 1802). His description of the Crimean Wall Lizard, then Lacerta taurica, from the Crimean Peninsula in the work Geographisch-physikalische und Naturhistorische Beschreibung des Rußischen Reiches was one of the results of zoological research at that time. “Georgi, 1801” must be considered the “correct” author of Lacerta taurica, now Podarcis tauricus, with the terra typica “Balaklava” (southern Crimean Peninsula). The later description and identical naming by Peter Simon Pallas (1814) was probably done in knowledge of Georgis description and refers to the same species. Since, according to the rules of nomenclature, the name of the author is not part of the name of the species, the regulations as for a “nomen oblitum” cannot apply. Lacerta taurica Georgi, 1801, was regareded a “nomen nudum” by Nikolsky (1915), which is probably based upon a lapse by this author. The cryptic reference to a “Habl.” or “Hablz.” in Georgi (1801) refers to the description of a “Lacerta agilis varietas” from the same locality (Balaklawa) by Carl Ludwig Hablizl (1785: 195 and 1789: 350, respectively). This reference refers solely to the origin of the information, but does not justify authorship or co-authorship.
- Subjects
RUSSIA; LACERTIDAE; ZOOLOGICAL nomenclature; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY of zoology; ECONOMIC research; LIZARDS; PENINSULAS; ZOOLOGICAL research; AUTHORSHIP
- Publication
Sekretär, 2022, Vol 22, p80
- ISSN
1612-2399
- Publication type
Article