Quasimodia J.L. Barnard, 1969

Nakano, Takafumi & Lowry, James K., 2019, The correct authorship of the amphipod genus-group name Quasimodia (Senticaudata: Hyaloidea: Phliantidae), Zootaxa 4671 (3), pp. 449-450 : 449

Genus Quasimodia J.L. Barnard, 1969

Quasimodia Sheard, 1936: 464 (nomen nudum, without type species fixation; Article 13.3 of the Code).—J.L. Barnard, 1972: 298.— Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 223.— Lowry & Myers, 2013: 31.

Quasimodia J.L. Barnard, 1969: 412 (inadvertently validated).

Type species. Quasimodia womersleyi Sheard, 1936 , fixed by original designation.

Diagnosis. See J.L. Barnard (1972).

Etymology. Although Sheard (1936) did not provide an etymology of Quasimodia, J.L. Barnard (1972) mentioned that this genus-group name was from Quasimodo—a fictional hunchbacked character in Victor Hugo’s novel, and referred to the dorsal hump on pereonite 1 of the originally included three species. Thus, the generic name is deemed to be derived from the name of Quasimodo. Sheard (1936) did not state the gender of his genus-group name and it is not possible to tell from his original publication (his three included species-group names comprise two patronyms and a noun). As he used the Latin suffix –ia, it is reasonable to assume that the gender of the name Quasimodia should be treated as feminine as well.

Included species. Quasimodia barnardi Sheard, 1936 ; Quasimodia enna J.L. Barnard, 1972 ; Quasimodia capricornis Sheard, 1936 ; and Quasimodia womersleyi Sheard, 1936 .

Remarks. J.L. Barnard (1972) indicated the similarity of the Phliantidae—which contains Quasimodia —to the Ceinidae . This is confirmed in the cladogram of senticaudate relationships in Lowry & Myers (2013) where the two families are next to each other.