Talitriator calvus (K.H. Barnard, 1940 )

Nakano, Takafumi, 2018, Mandatory changes of specific names to agree in gender with Talitriator Methuen, 1913, which is masculine (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae), Zootaxa 4483 (1), pp. 188-190 : 189

Talitriator calvus (K.H. Barnard, 1940)

Talitroides eastwoodae forma calva K.H. Barnard, 1940: 468 .

Talitriator calva .— Bousfield, 1984: table 7.— Griffiths, 1999: 353, fig. 3.— Milne & Griffiths, 2013: 88.

Talitriator calvus .— Stock & Biernbaum, 1994: 808 (in Remarks concerning Talitriator insularis ).

Etymology: The specific name calvus is a Latin adjective meaning bald, in reference to the “non-setose” peduncles of the pleopods in this taxon (K.H. Barnard 1940: 468).

Remarks: K.H. Barnard (1940) used both of the terms “variety” and “forma” through his work: he used the term “variety” for erecting Phreatoicus capensis var. penicillatus Barnard, 1940 with adding “n” (= new; K.H. Barnard 1940: 434); however, he used the term “forma” for all morphotypes under Talitriator eastwoodae without indicating the letter “n” (K.H. Barnard 1940: 465–468). The name calva is therefore deemed to have been proposed by K.H. Barnard (1940) as an infrasubspecific entity under Article 45.6.4 of the Code. However, the name calvus is deemed to be subspecific from its original description according to Article 45.6.4.1 because Bousfield (1984) raised it to species rank in Talitriator . But Bousfield (1984) did not change the suffix accordingly; nor did his successors apart from Stock & Biernbaum (1994).