Moloha Barnard, 1946

Ng, Peter K. L. & Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju, 2015, The species of Moloha Barnard, 1946, from the western Indian Ocean, with the description of a new species from India (Crustacea: Brachyura: Homolidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 166, pp. 1-25 : 2

Genus Moloha Barnard, 1946

Type species

Latreillopsis alcocki Stebbing, 1920 , by original designation.

Remarks

Most workers (e.g., Gordon 1950; Serène & Lohavanijaya 1973; Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995; Ahyong et al. 2009; Garassino 2009) cite the author of Moloha as “Barnard, 1947”. This is incorrect. Evenhuis (2003) dated the volume of the journal concerned as 29 April 1946. The genus should therefore be cited as Moloha Barnard, 1946 . In that paper, Barnard also described two new genera ( Eudromidia and Speodromia ) and 10 new species ( Dromidia aegibotus , D. dissothrix , Dromidiopsis cornuta (at present Dromidia ), Cryptodromidiopsis lepidota (at present Dromidia ), Hexapus stebbingi (at present Tritoplax ), Rhynchoplax bovis (at present Neorhynchoplax ), Heteronucia angulata , Dehaanius undulatus (at present Acanthonyx ), Portumnus mcleayi (at present Xaiva ) and Lybia plumosa ) from South Africa. The author and date for all these taxa should be “ Barnard, 1946 ” as well.