Pleurocrypta strigosa Bourdon, 1968

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Pleurocrypta strigosa Bourdon, 1968

Pleurocrypta galatheae (sic): Lo Bianco, 1888: 409 (not Pleurocrypta galateae Hesse, 1865 ).

Pleurocrypta strigosa Giard & Bonnier, 1890: 386 (nomen nudum); Stebbing, 1893: 410; Bonnier, 1900: 222, 317, 380; Richard, 1900: 72; Bohn, 1901: 508; Norman, 1905: 17; Norman, 1907: 363; Pike, 1953: 225; Le Sueur, 1954: 216; Bourdon, 1963: 428.

Pleurocrypta strigosa Bourdon, 1968: 220 , 222–226, 264–265, figs. 79–81; Markham, 1974b: 271; Lemos de Castro & Brasil Lima, 1975: 129; Trilles, 1999: 329, 331; Junoy & Castelló, 2003: 303; Van der Land, 2001: 322.

Pleurocrypta strigosa Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike in Codreanu, 1968: 611 –612 (new synonymy).

Remarks. Giard & Bonnier (1890) noted that the record of Pleurocrypta galatheae (sic) from a Galathea strigosa (Linnaeus, 1761) collected off Naples, Italy as reported by Lo Bianco (1888) belonged instead to a new species they named Pleurocrypta strigosa . Unfortunately, they provided no description or illustrations for the species, rendering a nomen nudum that has been subsequently repeated by several authors (see synonymy list above). Both Bourdon (1968) and Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike in Codreanu (1968) coincidentally made the name available in 1968, describing (and in Bourdon’s case, also figuring) the species from the same host taxon in France ( Bourdon 1968) and Spain ( Bourdon 1968, Codreanu 1968). There is no additional evidence to specify the date of publication of Bourdon (1968) or of Codreanu (1968) beyond the year given in the papers themselves (Service des Publications scientifiques, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, pers. comm,; Iorgu Petrescu, pers. comm.), so their date of publication must be accepted as 31 Dec 1968 (fide ICZN Article 21.3.2). As both the Pleurocrypta strigosa of Bourdon (1968) and Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike in Codreanu (1968) are synonymous as well as homonymous, we select the taxon as described by Bourdon to be the senior synonym because his description is far superior and accompanied by illustrations of the species.