Anilocra, Leach, 1818

John Hollier, 2017, The type specimens of parasitic marine isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) described by Henri de Saussure and Gottfried Haller deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Revue suisse de Zoologie 124 (1), pp. 183-186 : 185

mexicana Saussure, 1857: 505 [ Anilocra ].

Golfe du Mexique. Unspecified series.

The MHNG collection includes four specimens in alcohol under the name Anilocra mexicana, each in a separate vial. Two vials have the typewritten label “ Anilocra mexicana SAUSSURE transféré en alcool 27.IX.1982” and the handwritten label “ Anilocra mexicana Sauss Debr. Westindies”, one original and the other a photocopy. This label has four holes, having been folded and secured on a pin. The other two vials each have a handwritten label with a hole from the original pin “mexicana Sss., Tuxpam Sss.” A label in Crustacea box 13 indicates that these specimens were transferred to alcohol on the 23.IX.1982. The latter two specimens are syntypes; the status of the other two is less clear because there is no indication of when they were collected. These specimens were studied by Ernest Williams, presumably the occasion of their transfer to alcohol from the dry collection.

A junior synonym of Anilocra laticauda H. Milne- Edwards, 1840