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Taxon: Genus Myoxus Zimmermann, 1780, nom. illeg. - fat dormouse (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  E.A.W. Zimmermann, 1780, nom. superfl.
Original name:  von Zimmermann, E.A.W. 1780. Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere, nebst einer hieher gehörigen zoologischen Weltkarte, vol. 2. Weygandschen Buchhandlung, Leipzig.: 351.
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Attributes

Rejected homotypic synonym (nom. rej.) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 14.4] Ref: ICZN, 1998. Opinion 1894: 66.
Junior objective synonym (nom. illeg.: nom. superfl.) [ICZN] Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.

Types

Type of: Myoxini (Tribe) Gray, 1821
Type, by synonymy, of: Glirimorpha (Infraorder) Thaler, 1966 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 178. [new] [inferred]
Type: Myoxus glis (C. Linnaeus, 1766)

Variants

Different spelling: Myoxys (Genus) Billberg, 1827 Ref: S.A. Neave (ed.), [2005]: [19 Dec 2008].

Synonyms

Accepted name (objective): Glis (Genus) Brisson, 1762 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
Senior objective synonym: Glis (Genus) Brisson, 1762 Ref: ICZN, 1998: 66 (Ruling (6)(b)).
Synonymous name (objective): Glis (Genus) Brisson, 1762 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: fat dormouse
: edible dormouse
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