Hyperia Latreille 1823

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Hyperiidae; Hyperia; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5517896; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03931615EC69FFEBFEDFFEE3FC1EFCB8

Genus Hyperia Latreille, in Desmarest, 1823 Remarks This genus has been revised by Bowman (1973), who provides a key and very useful illustrations for each species. Bowman recognised eight species, one of which, H. antarctica Spandl, 1927, is now regarded a synonym of H. spinigera Bovallius, 1889 (Thurston 1977). Two additional species have been described more recently; H. bowmani Vinogradov, 1976 and H. curticephala Vinogradov & Semenova, 1985. Recently, I established that Oniscus quadricornis Fabricius, 1775 is most likely H. medusarum (Müller, 1776), and that the description of Fabricius is based solely on drawings by Sydney Parkinson held in the BMNH (Zeidler 1995). This species was listed only once in the literature (Fabricius 1781) before Fabricius (1787) realised that his species might be the same as H. medusarum . This synonymy seems to have been accepted by later naturalists but, probably because O. quadricornis was an inadequately described species, it was not recognised as the senior synonym. Stebbing (1888) also accepted the above synonymy but, like his predecessors, did not realise that Fabricius’s species was first published in 1775 and thus has priority. Similarly Bovallius (1889) gives a list of synonyms of H. medusarum but erroneously cites O. quadricornis Fabricius, 1781. Although Fabricius’s name has priority his species cannot be determined with certainty and the name has not been in use since 1781 (Fabricius 1781). Hyperia medusarum , on the other hand, is a well­established species and the name should be maintained to conserve nomenclatural stability. Subsequently a syntype of Hyperia latreillii Milne­Edwards, 1830 (later corrected to H. latreillei ) was discovered in the ANSP (CA 2697), in the Guérin­Méneville collection (No. 431) (Zeidler 1997). The specimen was identified tentatively as H. galba (Montagu, 1813), rather than the closely related species H. medusarum , with which H. latreillei has been synonymised in the past (Bowman 1973). Milne­Edwards (1830) gave the type locality of ...