Parapronoe Claus 1879

• Main Author: Zeidler, Wolfgang
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Malacostraca; Amphipoda; Pronoidae; Parapronoe; Giles; Hurley; Indian; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6069281; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6069281

Genus Parapronoe Claus, 1879 (Figs 7–8) Amphipronoe Bate, 1862: 335–336. Parapronoe Claus, 1879: 23 (key), 29–31.— Gerstaecker 1886: 486.— Claus 1887: 48 (key), 63–64.— Stebbing 1888: 1521 – 1522.— Schellenberg 1927: 651 –652.— Spandl 1927: 217 (key).— Pirlot 1929: 135.— Hurley 1955: 175 (incl. key).— Yoo 1971: 61 (key).— Bowman & Gruner 1973: 42 (key), 43–44.— Zeidler 1978: 25.— Vinogradov et al. 1982: 361 (key), 377– 378.— Shih & Chen 1995: 146 (key), 158.— Vinogradov 1999: 1202 (key), 1203. Sympronoe Stebbing, 1888: 1533.— Spandl 1927: 217 (key).— Pirlot 1929: 151.— Bowman & Gruner 1973: 42 (key), 44–45.— Zeidler 1978: 21 (key), 24. Type species. Parapronoe crustulum Claus, 1979 by page priority. Type material could not be found at the MFN or ZMH and is considered lost. However, the description and figures provided by Claus (1879, 1887) readily characterise this genus. No precise type locality is given, but specimens were collected from the tropical north-east Atlantic, off Lagos and the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, off Zanzibar. Type species of synonyms. The type species of Amphipronoe is A. cuspidata Bate, 1862 by monotypy. Type material could not be found at the NHM or the MNHN and is considered lost. However, it appears to be a species of Parapronoe, judging by the description and figures provided by Bate, but Amphipronoe has not been used in the scientific literature since Streets (1877) and Giles (1888) (for A. longicornuta a synonym of Lycaea vincentii), and is rejected as a senior synonym of Parapronoe in order to preserve nomenclatural stability (ICZN, Article 23.9). The type locality is the South Atlantic, near the Cape of Good Hope, Captain Raynaud, February 1829. The type species of Sympronoe is Parapronoe parva Claus, 1879; designated by Stebbing (1888). Type material could not be found at the MFN but the ZMH has seven males and one specimen with the head missing (K22286), which probably represents type material. This material seems to be from the time of Claus and has the ...