On the distinction and availability of the new taxa proposed by Agnolin et al. 2019

PABLO TETA; GUILLERMO D'ELÍA; PABLO JAYAT; PABLO RODRIGUES GONÇALVES; GUSTAVO SIMÕES LIBARDI; JOÃO ALVES DE OLIVEIRA; RICARDO MORATELLI; ALEXANDRE REIS PERCEQUILLO; JOYCE RODRIGUES DO PRADO; PABLO ORTIZ; NATALI HURTADO; SCHIAFFINI, MAURO IGNACIO; EDSON FIEDLER DE ABREU-JR; ELISANDRA ALMEIDA CHIQUITO; GIMÉNEZ, ANALÍA LAURA; JULIO TORRES

MASTOZOOLOGí­A NEOTROPICAL

UNIDAD DE ZOOLOGÍA Y ECOLOGÍA ANIMAL, INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LAS ZONAS ARIDAS, CRICYT, CONICET

Lugar: Mendoza; Año: 2020 vol. 27 p. 155 - 171

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Recently, Agnolin et al. (2019) described 14 new species of mammals, including 12 rodents,one bat, and one carnivore, and one new subspecies of rodent. In addition, these authors proposed severalother nomenclatorial acts: some nominal forms were removed from synonymies and hypothesized as distinctspecies, at the time that three new genera, one subtribe, and one tribe of mammals were also named. Wereviewed the merits of all nomenclatorial acts proposed by Agnolin at al. (2019) and concluded that all 14new species and the new subspecies, as well as those forms removed from synonymies, should be treatedas synonyms of already known species. We suggest the same regarding the three new supraspecic taxapresented by Agnolin et al., two of which are not available as they fail to comply with the provisions of theInternational Code of Zoological Nomenclature. We end this contribution criticizing the way that mammaltaxonomy was approached by Agnolin et al. (2019).