Talitriator africanus ( Spence Bate, 1862 )

Nakano, Takafumi, 2018, Mandatory changes of specific names to agree in gender with Talitriator Methuen, 1913, which is masculine (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae), Zootaxa 4483 (1), pp. 188-190 : 188

Talitriator africanus ( Spence Bate, 1862)

Talorchestia ? Africana Spence Bate, 1862: 15–16, pl. 2, fig. 6.

Talorchestia africana .— Stebbing, 1906: 554.

Talitriator africanus .— Stebbing, 1917: 330–331.— Spandl, 1924: 468.

Talitrus africanus .— Hunt, 1925: 855, 857, 860–861 (key), fig. 1c.— Hurley, 1959: 109, fig. 1.— Hurley, 1975: 159.

Talorchestia (?) africana .— Stock & Biernbaum, 1994: 808 (in Remarks concerning Talitriator insularis Stock & Biernbaum, 1994 ).

Talitriator africana .— Griffiths, 1999: 351–353, fig. 2.— Lawes et al., 2005: 112.— Kotze & Lawes, 2007: 296.— Kotze & Lawes, 2008: 738.— Milne & Griffiths, 2013: 88.

Talistroides (sic) africana .— Kotze & Samways, 1999: 1342 (authorship was wrongly attributed to Griffiths).— Kotze & Samways, 2001: 444.

Etymology: The specific name africanus is a Latin adjective referring to the type locality, “Port Natal” (= Durban, South Africa; Spence Bate 1862: 16).

Remarks: The specific name’s original spelling as africana was correct in combination with the feminine generic name Talorchestia Dana, 1852 . When Stebbing (1917) moved this nominal species to Talitriator he changed the suffix accordingly, but his successors reverted to the feminine spelling.