Tesserodon Hope, 1837

Tesserodon Hope, 1837 View in CoL

Ateuchus ( Tesserodon) Hope, 1837: 55 , pl. 3, fig. 15, justifiably emended to Tessarodon View in CoL in an errata list issued along with the original description, but emendation not in usage (see text for details).

Type species: Scarabaeus novaehollandiae Fabricius, 1775 View in CoL , by original monotypy.

Remarks: After originally treating Tesserodon View in CoL ambiguously as a subgenus (Hope 1837: p. 55) and as a full genus (pl. 3) in his review of the Linnaean and Fabrician scarabs, Hope (1838: 324) himself treated it definitively as a genus in his following year’s review of the Olivier (1789a, b) scarabs (“ Novae Hollandiae. Now the type of the genus Tesserodon, Hope View in CoL ”). This has been accepted ever since. Hope (1837) remarked in the original description that, in addition to “ S. hollandiae View in CoL ”, there were “three or four undescribed species in different collections” belonging to Tesserodon View in CoL . While this indicated that Tesserodon View in CoL was not taxonomically monospecific, nomenclaturally, it originally was, as only one nominal species (i.e., only one described, named species) was assigned to the new genus-group taxon, S. novaehollandiae View in CoL . This fixed it as the type species by original monotypy under Articles 67.6 and 68.3 even though Hope (1837)—in the text ( Fig. 5A–B View FIGURE 5 ), but not on the figure plate ( Fig. 5C View FIGURE 5 )—referred to it under Fabricius’s (1781) incorrect subsequent spelling hollandiae View in CoL .

Anisodon Hope, 1837: 34 , nomen nudum, failed to satisfy Article 11.5, nec Anisodon Lartet, 1851 (valid name in Mammalia View in CoL : Perissodactyla View in CoL : † Chalicotheriidae ), nec Anisodon Rosen, 1905 (invalid junior subjective synonym of Psammodynastes Günther, 1858 View in CoL ; Reptilia: Serpentes: Psammodynastidae).