Talk:Nosferatu

The online pre-publication in 2014 was not fullfilling Article 8.5 of the amendment of the ICZN, where its stated that:

8.5.3. be registered in the Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature (ZooBank) (see Article 78.2.4) and contain evidence in the work itself that such registration has occurred.

The latter did not happen, so publication date is that of the print edition, which was in 2015 and not in 2014.

But the validity of the genus is havily disputed by Mejía et al., 2015 who state:

"Finally, we rejected the recent proposal of De la Maza-Benignos et al. (2014), who suggested that the species included in the H. labridens species group must be segregated into a new genus named Nosferatu because the morphological characters that support both genera are also present in species of the other genus (Pérez-Miranda et al. in prep.)."

References

• ICZN 2012. Amendment of Articles 8, 9, 10, 21 and 78 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication. Zootaxa 3450: 1–7. Preview (PDF). Full paper (PDF). Reference page. 
• Mejía, O., Pérez-Miranda, F., León-Romero, Y., Soto-Galera, E. & de Luna, E. 2015. Morphometric variation of the Herichthys bartoni (Bean, 1892) species group (Teleostei: Cichlidae): How many species comprise H. labridens (Pellegrin, 1903)? Neotropical Ichthyology 13(1): 61–76. DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-20140067Reference page.