Curtipleon Sieg, 1983

Kakui, Keiichi & Nakano, Takafumi, 2019, On the Authorship of the Genus-group Name Curtipleon (Crustacea: Tanaidacea: Metapseudidae), Species Diversity 24, pp. 179-180 : 180

Genus Curtipleon Sieg, 1983

Curtipleon Bǎcescu, 1976b: 51 (nomen nudum, without a type species fixation); Larsen 2002: 146; Guţu 2006: 16; Stępień and Błażewicz-Paszkowycz 2013: 569 ; Kakui and Naruse 2015: 146; Larsen et al. 2015: 297; Anderson 2017: 176; Heard et al. 2018: 302.

Curtipleon Sieg, 1983: 137 .

Diagnosis. See Stępień and Błażewicz-Paszkowycz (2013).

Type species. Synapseudes carinatoides Bǎcescu, 1976 , fixed by original designation ( Sieg 1983).

Etymology. The generic name is a compounded noun, and treated as neuter under Article 30.1.2 of the Code. This name was possibly derived from the Latin words, curtus (short) and pleon [pleon, from the Ancient Greek words πλεων or πλεΟν ( Jaeger 1972); neuter], and refers to the fused and short pleon of S. carinatus and S. carinatoides (see Bǎcescu 1976b).

Included species. Curtipleon carinatoides (Bǎcescu, 1976) ; Curtipleon carinatum ( Makkaveeva, 1971) ; Curtipleon chadi Stępień and Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, 2013 ; Curtipleon heterochelatum Larsen, 2002 ; Curtipleon loerzae Bamber, 2008 .

Remarks. When he proposed this genus, Bǎcescu (1976b) cited one of the included species with a masculine ending, in the combination Curtipleon carinatus . However, Sieg (1983) treated Curtipleon as a noun of neuter gender and accordingly adopted the spelling carinatum for the specific name. Larsen (2002) judged the gender of Curtipleon to be neuter, only referring to Bǎcescu (1976b). Since Sieg (1983), who is the correct author of Curtipleon , treated this generic name as neuter, its gender is unquestionably determined as it was established in the original description.