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variegata

History

Species
Austruca variegata
Original Usage
Gelasimus variegatus
Original Source with Priority
Heller, C. (1862) Neue Crustaceen, gesammelt während der Weltumseglung der k. k. Fregatte Novara. Zweiter vorläufiger Bericht. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:519–528.
Derivation
Named for the patterned coloration of its carapace.

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Notes/Comments

This name has been used at least twice, in different contexts. H. Milne Edwards (1837) refers to a museum label, Gelasimus variegata, from Latreille which he synonymizes with Gelasimus tetragonon (Herbst, 1790). This label is a nomen nudum and has no priority. Later, Heller (1862) used Gelasimus variegatus for a species found in eastern India. For over 150 years, Heller's species was unknown and assumed to be a synonym of something else, but Shih et al. (2019) were able to show that it is a unique species, closely related to Austruca bengali.

Binomials Using this Specific Name