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Klausmeier, Jass (2000)
ENDEMICS AND IMMIGRANTS: NORTH AMERICAN TERRESTRIAL ISOPODS (ISOPODA, ONISCIDEA) NORTH OF MEXICOCrustaceana, 73
Van Name, W. Gibbs (1936)
The American Land and fresh- water isopod crustacea
T. Say
An account of the Crustacea of the United States (continued), 1
MIKTONISCUS SPINOSUS (SAY, 1818) NOV. COMB. FOR MIKTONISCUS HALOPHILUS BLAKE, 1931, AND PHILOSCIA SPINOSA SAY, 1818, FROM EASTERN UNITED STATES (ISOPODA, ONISCIDEA, TRICHONISCIDAE) BY GEORGE A. SCHULTZ 1 / 15 Smith St., Hampton, NJ 08827, U.S.A. Thomas Say in 1818 published the description of a species which he called Philoscia spinosa from near Savannah, Georgia, then a small town in an unde- veloped region near the sea. The species, as described by Say, de nitely is not in Philoscia nor in Philosciidae, although at the time of Say, Philoscia was a very broadly de ned genus. The species has not been encountered again and the name only has been included in lists of species of oniscideans from the Americas (Richardson, 1905: 608; Van Name, 1936: 167; Jass & Klausmeier, 2000: 786). According to Say the specimens were deposited in the “Cabinet of the Academy” (i.e., The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia) but they no longer are there. Also, Say deposited a representative set of species of crustaceans which he de- scribed from the United States in the British Museum (Natural History) (now The Natural History Museum, London), but specimens labeled “ Philoscia spinosa ” are not there today (Joan
Crustaceana – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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