Homola vigil A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

Cleva, Régis, Guinot, Danièle & Albenga, Laurent, 2007, Annotated catalogue of brachyuran type specimens (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) deposited in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. Part I. Podotremata, Zoosystema 29 (2), pp. 229-279 : 250

Homola vigil A. Milne-Edwards, 1880

Homola vigil A. Milne-Edwards, 1880: 33 .

LECTOTYPE. — MNHN-B6964, West Indies , Martinique, Blake, stn 193, 14°43.48’N, 61°11.25’W, 310 m, 5.II.1879, ♂ 21.0 × 18.0 mm, carapace, abdomen, and many appendages detached; rostrum slightly blunt. — Original label: “ Martinique, Blake (Agassiz) 1-79, Homola vigil A. M. Edw. 1880 (Typique) , Nº 193, 169 brasses”.

REMARKS

The type series consisted of three specimens. The specimen from Martinique (stn 193), labelled as “typique” and figured by A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier (1902), was explicitly designated as the holotype by Rathbun (1937: 66, as Thelxiope vigil ), and she added (Rathbun 1937: table 18): “Whereabouts unknown” and “not examined”, which was followed by Guinot & Richer de Forges (1995). This constitutes a misuse of the Code because A. Milne-Edwards (1880) referred to several specimens. Thus the Martinique specimen is designated here as the lectotype ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6). The two other specimens, from Cuba and Guadeloupe, deposited at MCZ become paralectotypes. See Guinot & Richer de Forges (1995: figs 9i, 13b).