Trapezia punctimanus Odinetz, 1983

PETER CASTRO, PETER K. L. NG & SHANE T. AHYONG, 2004, Phylogeny and systematics of the Trapeziidae Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Brachyura), with the description of a new family, Zootaxa 643, pp. 1-70 : 52

Trapezia punctimanus Odinetz, 1983

Trapezia punctimanus Odinetz, 1983: 35 , 107, 114, 134, 206, 214, photograph 7 (colour).

Remarks. This species was first described in a doctoral thesis ( Odinetz 1983) although it was formally described in a publication of much wider circulation a year later ( Odinetz 1984). However, Odinetz's (1983) thesis was widely circulated among scientists from different parts of the world. Although she did not intend it to be a proper publication, she did not state emphatically that it was not, and as such it fulfils all the requirements for publication under the current zoological code ( ICZN 1999) and as such, the 1983 publication date of her new name is valid.