Cancer barffi Curtiss 1938 ...
Cancer barffi Curtiss, 1938 [tiáneé] Scyllarus antarcticus Lund, 1793: 22. Cancer barffi Curtiss, 1938: 164. The detailed description of this crayfish strongly indicates that it is the common reef slipper or mitten lobster Parribacus antarcticus (Lund, 1793) (Scyllaridae). Holthuis (1985: 74) was th...
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| Summary: | Cancer barffi Curtiss, 1938 [tiáneé] Scyllarus antarcticus Lund, 1793: 22. Cancer barffi Curtiss, 1938: 164. The detailed description of this crayfish strongly indicates that it is the common reef slipper or mitten lobster Parribacus antarcticus (Lund, 1793) (Scyllaridae). Holthuis (1985: 74) was the first to report Cancer barffi as a synonym of P. antarcticus, although he did not explain why, and this synonymy has been followed by later workers (e.g., Holthuis 1991; Poupin 1996; Chan 1998; Davie 2002). Three other species of Parribacus actually occur in French Polynesia: P. holthuisi Forest, 1964, P. scarlatinus Holthuis, 1960, and P. perlatus Holthuis, 1967, but Curtiss’s (1938: 163–164) observations that the “outer antennae have each four joints; the fourth, or final joint has eight spines at its tip, and some pale orange hairs ….. abdomen has bumps on the middle of the upper side of the second, third and fourth sections. The fourth section has its bump less noticeable, but those on the second and third ... : Published as part of Ng, Peter K. L., Eldredge, Lucius G. & Evenhuis, Neal L., 2011, The names of decapod and stomatopod Crustacea from Tahiti, French Polynesia, established by Anthony Curtiss in 1938 and 1944, pp. 43-56 in Zootaxa 3099 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.206896 ... |
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