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There are two authorship for the genus-group name Linaria :

Linaria Bartram, 1791

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Linaria Bechstein, 1802

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Shouldn't the first take precedence?
 
Vázquez-López M, Ramírez-Barrera SM, Terrones-Ramírez AK, Robles-Bello SM, Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Ruegg K, Hernández-Baños BE (2024) Biogeographic factors contributing to the diversification of Euphoniinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae): a phylogenetic and ancestral areas analysis. ZooKeys 1188: 169-195. Biogeographic factors contributing to the diversification of Euphoniinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae): a phylogenetic and ancestral areas analysis

Generic classification:

Chlorophonia Bonaparte, 1851
Cyanophonia Bonaparte, 1851
Euphonia Desmarest, 1805
Phonasca Cabanis, 1861
Rufiphonia Vazquez-Lopez & al., 2024 (new genus)
 
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Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
Vázquez-López M, Ramírez-Barrera SM, Terrones-Ramírez AK, Robles-Bello SM, Nieto-Montes de Oca A, Ruegg K, Hernández-Baños BE (2024) Biogeographic factors contributing to the diversification of Euphoniinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae): a phylogenetic and ancestral areas analysis. ZooKeys 1188: 169-195. Biogeographic factors contributing to the diversification of Euphoniinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae): a phylogenetic and ancestral areas analysis

Generic classification:

Chlorophonia Bonaparte, 1851
Cyanophonia Bonaparte, 1851
Euphonia Desmarest, 1805
Phonasca Cabanis, 1861
Rufiphonia Vazquez-Lopez & al., 2024 (new genus)
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The yellow-throated group could be named Phonasca (Cabanis, 1861), which was previously nominated for five of the six species of this group by Cabanis (1861). We designate the Violaceus Euphonia, Phonasca violacea as the type species, since it is the first species described in 1758 by Linnaeus.
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The Keys :
Phonasca Cabanis, Journ. Orn., 8, p. 330, 1860—type, by subs. desig. (Cabanis, Journ. Orn., 9, p. 90, 1861), Fringilla violacea Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 15).
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
The Keys :
Phonasca Cabanis, Journ. Orn., 8, p. 330, 1860—type, by subs. desig. (Cabanis, Journ. Orn., 9, p. 90, 1861), Fringilla violacea Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 15).
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Yes : Jahrg.9=no.49-54 (1861) - Journal für Ornithologie - Biodiversity Heritage Library

Xenospiza said:
Rufiphonia is a horrendous chimaera.
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It's a vox hybrida, and doubtless also a name that purists would once have rejected as meaningless.
E.g., Sclater renamed Bonaparte's Chlorophonia into Chloreuphonia, stating : "It is rather absurd to call a bird “green-voiced,” which Chlorophonia means."
Well, now we also have a "rufous-voiced" bird, then.
 
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What about Iliolopha ?

This name appeared first as a nomen nudum in :
Bonaparte CL. 1854. Notes sur les collections rapportées en 1853, par M. A. Delattre, de son voyage en Californie et dans le Nicaragua. Huitième communication: chanteurs dentirostres. C.R. Hebd. Séan. Acad. Sci. Paris, 38: 533-542.
p. 389 : t.38 (1854) - Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Key says :
Iliolopha
(Fringillidae; syn. Euphonia † Chestnut-bellied Euphonia E. pectoralis) L. ilia, ilium flanks < ile, ilis flank; Gr. λοφος lophos plume; "e. Euphoneæ. ... 1060. Iliolopha, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854); "Euphonia Gouldi ... It may, I think, be most naturally placed at the head of the section containing Euphonia pectoralis, E. rufiventris and others (which has been denominated Iliolopha by Prince Bonaparte)" (P. Sclater 1857); "Iliolopha pectoralis (Lath.) Gr. — Euphone rufiventris Licht. (nec Vieill.), Euler No. 89. ♂" (Cabanis 1874); "Iliolopha Cabanis, Journ. Orn., 22, p. 83, 1874—type, by monotypy, "Iliolopha pectoralis (Lath.)" = Pipra pectoralis Latham." (Hellmayr, 1936, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. IX, p. 15) (see Acroleptes).
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The name had been used once in print between Bonaparte 1854 and Sclater 1857, however -- in Feb 1856 :
Gray GR. 1856. Notes on the review of G.R. Gray's “Catalogue of the genera and subgenera of birds” in the December number of the ‘Annals’. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 17: 189-194.
p. 192 : ser.2:v.17=no.97-102 (1856) - The Annals and magazine of natural history - Biodiversity Heritage Library
Here, Gray, while discussing the type of the nominal genus Tanagra Linnaeus, associated quite clearly Tanagra cayanensis (a subsequent spelling, introduced by Latham 1790, of T. cayennensis Gmelin 1789, now Euphonia cayennensis) to Iliolopha, in a way that I think should suffice to make the name available with this species as its type :
Tanagra was established by Linneus in 1766, and the first species in his list is T. yacapa. In 1805 Desmarest considers T. tatao (=Aglaia) as the type of Tanagra; in 1811 Illiger, taking the first-named species in Linnaeus’s list, recurs to T. jacapa; in 1816 Vieillot gives T. cayanensis (=Iliolopha); in 1817 Cuvier adopts T. violacea (=Euphonia); in 1820, Temminck takes Lanius leverianus (= Cissopis); while it is not until 1827 that Swainson proposes T. episcopus as the type of the genus Tanagra.
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Whatever the option that is preferred, though, the type of Iliolopha seems to fall in the circumscription of the newly proposed genus (Rufiphonia rufiventris, R. fulvicrissa, R. imitans, R. gouldi, R. mesochrysa, R. anneae, R. xanthogaster, R. pectoralis, R. cayennensis).
 
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This is The Key entry:
Rufiphonia
(Fringillidae; syn. Euphonia † Rufous-bellied Euphonia E. rufiventris) L. rufus red, rufous; genus Euphonia Desmarest, 1806, euphonia; “We propose a new genus because there is no available name for a third group in Euphonia. Rufiphonia Vázquez-López & Hernández-Baños, gen. nov. Type species Rufiphonia rufiventris (Vieillot, 1819). Type locality: Perú. Included species Rufiphonia fulvicrissa … R. imitans … R. gouldi … R. mesochrysa … R. anneae … R. xanthogaster … R. pectoralis … R. cayennensis … The new genus can be distinguished from all other Euphonia species by the rufous color patches, which can be on the belly, the crest, and/or the undertail-coverts, in both male and female adults.” (Vázquez-López & Hernández-Baños, 2024) (OD per Jim Gaudin); “Rufiphonia Vázquez-López & Hernández-Baños in Vázquez-López, Ramírez-Barrera, Terrones-Ramírez, Robles-Bello, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Ruegg and Hernández-Baños, 2024, ZooKeys, 1188, p. 169+. Type, by original designation, Rufiphonia rufiventris (Vieillot, 1819), i.e. Tanagra rufiventris Vieillot, 1819.” (JAJ 9/1/24).
 
l_raty said:
Whatever the option that is preferred, though, the type of Iliolopha seems to fall in the circumscription of the newly proposed genus (Rufiphonia rufiventris, R. fulvicrissa, R. imitans, R. gouldi, R. mesochrysa, R. anneae, R. xanthogaster, R. pectoralis, R. cayennensis).
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So, Rufiphonia is a junior synonym of Iliolopha?
 
Jim LeNomenclatoriste said:
But, three species (cayana, pectoralis and rufiventris) were mentioned by Sclater and no type species has been designated. Even if Cabanis is not the original author, can his designation be considered valid?
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As I wrote above, I would make Gray the author, and he mentioned only one species, thus no designation is needed.

A type designation stands from the moment that the designated nominal species is eligible. The reason for the designation may be wrong, and the names may all be misattributed or misspelled -- this does not matter.

67.7. Status of incorrect citations
If, in fixing the type species for a nominal genus or subgenus, an author wrongly attributes the name of the type species, or of the genus or subgenus, to an author or date other than that denoting its first establishment, or cites wrongly the first express inclusion of nominal species in that genus or subgenus, he or she is nevertheless to be considered, if the nominal species was otherwise eligible, to have validly fixed the type species. For previous misidentifications deliberately employed when fixing a type species, see Articles 11.10 and 67.13.
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69.1. Type species by subsequent designation
If an author established a nominal genus or subgenus but did not fix its type species, the first author who subsequently designates one of the originally included nominal species [Art. 67.2] validly designates the type species of that nominal genus or subgenus (type by subsequent designation), and no later designation is valid.
69.1.1. In the absence of a prior type fixation for a nominal genus or subgenus, an author is deemed to have designated one of the originally included nominal species as type species, if he or she states (for whatever reason, right or wrong) that it is the type or type species, or uses an equivalent term, and if it is clear that that author accepts it as the type species.
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Cabanis 1874 did not designate a type at all. If the name is taken from Sclater 1857 (and if there is nothing between 1857 and this), the type was designated in 1936 by Hellmayr (who attributed the name to Cabanis, and claimed that its type was fixed by monotypy -- he was wrong on these two accounts, but this does not make the designation invalid).
 
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l_raty said:
As I wrote above, I would make Gray the author, and he mentioned only one species, thus no designation is needed.

A type designation stands from the moment that the designated nominal species is eligible. The reason for the designation may be wrong, and the names may all be misattributed or misspelled -- this does not matter.




Cabanis 1874 did not designate a type at all. If the name is taken from Sclater 1857 (and if there is nothing between 1857 and this), the type was designated by Hellmayr in 1936.
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I misunderstood this sentence lol:

The name had been used once in print between Bonaparte 1854 and Sclater 1857, however -- in Feb 1856
 
A big mistake was made by the authors. The type species of Euphonia is minuta, which is included in Phonasca by the authors. The correct classification is the following:

Chlorophonia Bonaparte, 1851
Cyanophonia Bonaparte, 1851
Euphonia Desmarest, 1805
Pyrrhuphonia Bonaparte, 1851 (type jamaica)
Iliolopha (Gray, 1856)
 
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