The proper authorship of the nomen Ololygon heyeri (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae)
Abstract
The new frog nomen Ololygon heyeri was inadvertently first published by Weygoldt (1986) associated with characters that could make it nomenclaturally available under Article 13 of the Code, but the epithet heyeri was consistently written there between quotation marks, which makes it unavailable under Articles 8.3 and 11.5. This nomen was made available in the formal description of the species by Peixoto & Weygoldt (1987). Under Article 73.1.1, the designation in the latter work of a ‘lectotype’ for this nominal species should be interpreted as a holotype designation.