Dromia nodipes Guérin-Méneville, 1832

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 : 242

Dromia nodipes Guérin-Méneville, 1832

Dromia nodipes Guérin-Méneville, 1832: 11 , pl. 14, fig. 1.

CURRENT STATUS. — Fultodromia nodipes (Guérin- Méneville, 1832).

LECTOTYPE (designated by Guinot & Tavares 2003). — MNHN-B15, unknown location, Guinot & Tavares det. Fultodromia nodipes , ♀ 22.5 × 23.0 mm, rehydrated, presently in alcohol, badly damaged (carapace broken in several pieces, and rest of the body crushed).

REMARKS

The female specimen of Dromia nodipes was regarded as the presumed type and designated as the lectotype by Guinot & Tavares (2003: 66). It is not accompanied by any original label indicating the country of origin. This agrees with the question mark in the caption of the figure by Guérin-Méneville (1832: 11) and in the text of H. Milne Edwards (1837: 177). The additional mention “Cap de Bonne-Espérance” in the MNHN hard-bound catalogue most probably results from a mistake of a subsequent transcription. It is thus incorrect to assign the reference “Cap de Bonne- Espérance” for Port Esperance or Esperance Bay in South Australia, as suggested by McLay (1993: 162), and also used by Davie (2002: 164). The provenance of the lectotype remains unknown, but the collection site could be South Australia (see McLay 1993: 162; Poore 2004: 306, fig. 85a). Note that Dromia nodipes Lamarck, 1818 (p. 264) is a nomen nudum.