Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898

Cleva, Régis, Guinot, Danièle & Albenga, Laurent, 2007, Annotated catalogue of brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) deposited in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Part I. Podotremata, Zoosystema 29 (2), pp. 229-279 : 243

Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898

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Dromia nodosa A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1898: 75 .

LECTOTYPE. — MNHN-B7834, Cape Verde Islands, canal between São Vicente and Santo Antão, Talisman , stn 115, about 16°56’N, 75 m, 29.VII.1883, ♂ 18 × 21 mm, abdomen detached. — Original label: “ Dromia nodosa Edw. et Bouv. , types, “Le Talisman ” 1883, 29 juillet, Nº 107, 75 m, Îles du Cap Vert; canal de St. Vincent à St. Antoine. Sable, coquilles, 4742-86”.

PARALECTOTYPE. — MNHN-B29856, same data as lectotype, ♂ 10.0 × 11.0 mm. — Original label: same as lectotype.

REMARKS

Only three specimens exist of the five males collected by the Talisman in the Cape Verde Islands, all three labelled “types”. A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1898; 1900: 18, 20, pl. 9, figs 12-14) designated the larger specimen as the “type”. Monod (1956: 65) quoted five male “types”. As the original description was based on more than one specimen, the terms “ holotype ” and “ paratypes ” were misused by Forest & Guinot (1966: 45) and Forest (1974: 94) ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.5), and their holotype designation constitutes a valid lectotype designation. The two paratypes (one of which, ♂ 7.3 × 8.1 mm, is deposited at BMNH) become paralectotypes.