Upogebia Leach, 1814

Dworschak, Peter C. & Poore, Gary C. B., 2018, More cautionary tales: family, generic and species synonymies of recently published taxa of ghost and mud shrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea), Zootaxa 4394 (1), pp. 61-76 : 72

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.3
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scientific name	Upogebia Leach, 1814
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Genus Upogebia Leach, 1814 View in CoL

Upogebia Leach, 1814: 400 View in CoL [type species Cancer Astacus View in CoL stellatus Montagu, 1808 by monotypy, gender feminine].—de Saint Laurent & LeLoeuff 1979: 36 (synonymy).— Sakai 2006a: 38 –40.

Kuwaitupogebia Sakai, Türkay & Al Aidaroos, 2015: 1223 –1224 [type species Kuwaitupogebia nithyanandan Sakai, Türkay & Al Aidaroos, 2015 , by original designation and monotypy, gender feminine]. Syn. nov.

Remarks. Sakai et al. (2015a) repeated their arguments to justify separating the new genus from Upogebia . As shown below, none of the differences is real. Upogebiidae includes 11 genera ( Sakai 2006a) but the synonymy of Kuwaitupogebia with Upogebia , rather than with any other, has been determined after examination of its type species and comparison with similar species (see below).