Robertgurneya Explained

Robertgurneya is a genus of copepods, containing the following species:^[1]

• Robertgurneya arabica (Noodt, 1964)
• Robertgurneya brevipes Wells & Rao, 1987
• Robertgurneya dactylifer (C. B. Wilson, 1931)
• Robertgurneya dictydiophora (Monard, 1928)
• Robertgurneya diversa Lang, 1965
• Robertgurneya ecaudata (Monard, 1936)
• Robertgurneya erythraea (A. Scott, 1902)
• Robertgurneya falklandiensis (Lang, 1936)
• Robertgurneya hopkinsi Lang, 1965
• Robertgurneya ilievecensis (Monard, 1935)
• Robertgurneya intermedia Bozic, 1955
• Robertgurneya oligochaeta Noodt, 1955
• Robertgurneya remanei Klie, 1950
• Robertgurneya rostrata (Gurney, 1927)
• Robertgurneya simulans (Norman & T. Scott, 1905)
• Robertgurneya smithi Hamond, 1973
• Robertgurneya soyeri Apostolov, 1974
• Robertgurneya spinulosa (G. O. Sars, 1911)
• Robertgurneya tenax (Brian, 1927)

Taxonomic history

The genus Robertgurneya was first diagnosed by Karl Georg Herman Lang in 1944, with the name commemorating Robert Gurney.^[2] Since Lang did not designate a type species, as required by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature for generic names published since 1930, that name is not "available". The first authors to explicitly designate a type species were Apostolov & Marinov in 1988, and they are therefore considered the authors of the genus.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: T. Chad Walter & Rony Huys . 2009 . Robertgurneya Lang, 1944 . T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall . World Copepoda database . . September 14, 2010.
2. Web site: Dr. Robert Gurney. Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names . Hans G. Hansson . . September 14, 2010 .
3. Rony Huys . 2009 . Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda) . . 978-1-86977-400-4 . 2183 . 1–99 . PDF excerpt. Author copy