Cancer (Mantis) digitalis Herbst, 1793, an objective synonym of Oratosquillina quinquedentata (Brooks, 1886): neotype designation and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae)

SHANE T. AHYONG; MARTYN E.Y. LOW

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.6

Issue: Vol. 3691 No. 5: 24 Jul. 2013

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2013-07-25

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.6

Page range: 597–600

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Cancer (Mantis) digitalis Herbst, 1793, an objective synonym of Oratosquillina quinquedentata (Brooks, 1886): neotype designation and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae)

SHANE T. AHYONG⁺⁻
MARTYN E.Y. LOW⁺⁻

Crustacea Stomatopoda Squillidae

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Abstract

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1793) proposed two species-group names for stomatopod crustaceans from the East Indies (= Indonesia): Cancer (Mantis) arenarius (pp. 96–98, pl. 33, fig. 2) and Cancer (Mantis) digitalis (pp. 92–96, pl. 33, fig. 1) (Fig. 1A). Cancer (Mantis) arenarius Herbst, 1793, is a preoccupied objective synonym of what is now known as Lysiosquillina maculata (Fabricius, 1793) (see Low & Ng 2012: 47, 48).