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Synonyniy.
Lilljeborg’s seems, as far as 1 can judge, to exist no longer. There are, on the other hand,
paratype specimens both from Bohuslän and the west coast of Norway and Ctreenland. These
have been investigated by me and their identity with the form described by me above
verified. In addition I have investigated specimens caught at the type-locality of
Lilljeborg’s species, near Kullaberg in Skelderviken; these investigations too confirmed
the above identification.
It is, however, only the female of this species tliatW. Lilljeborg denotes by the name
of Cypridina globosa. The male is described afterwards under the name of Phüomedes longicornis
(p. 176). Which of these two naines of species ought to be used? According to the Art. 28 c
in the International Rules for Zoological Nomenclature (Zool. Anzeiger, 1905), which reads:
„Unter sonst gleichen Umständen ist derjenige Name vorzuziehen, der in der Veröffentlichung
an erster Stelle angeführt wird“, I have taken globosa as the name for the species in this work.
W. Baird states in his work of 1860 a, p. 200 that the species Cypridina excisa
described by IV. StJMPSOX, 1853. p. 39 from Grand Manan is synonymous with his Cypridina
Brenda and supports this synonymization by a personal examination of STIMPSON’s specimens,
„fide specimens“. Whether this statement proves that this form of STIMPSON’s is identical
with the species described by me above is uncertain. The Statements as to locale do not
contra-dict it; as will be seen below, I have found Ph. (Ph.) globosa common in Fortune Bay,
Newfoundland, which is a locale near STIMPSON’s type-locale. STIMPSON’s original description and
figure are unfortunately too incomplete to permit of a certain identification. This
synonymi-zation would, however, make it necessary to assume that this author had committed very
great mistakes in his reproduction of the shell and I have consequently considered it inconvénient
to adopt this view of Baird’s.
The chief reason why I — like a few preceding authors — have included Asterope
groen-landica, S. FISCHER, 1855 — a form that has been incompletely and certainly very incorrectly
described — as a synonym of the species dealt with here is that the very abundant Ostracod
material I have had an opportunity of investigating seemed to indicate that this was the only
species belonging to the family Cypridinidae that is found in Greenland — at any rate it is by
far the most abundant. It was first included in the genus dealt with here by G. O. Sars, 1865,
p. 110, and G. S. Brady writes, 1868 b, p. 466 „and is either identical with, or closely allied to,
Bradycinetus Brenda“. In his Naples monograph G. W. Müller writes of this species, that it
„vielleicht“ is a synonym of Ph. (Pli.) globosa.
The reason why A. M. Norman’s Phüomedes longicornis, 1867, p. 198 and 1869, p. 295
has not been included as a synonym is that this writer identifies this species of Lilljeborg’s
with Phüomedes interpuncta (W. Baird). Norman, 1861, p. 280 also has a form Ph. longicornis;
it is clear, however, from his accompanying figure that it is Ph. interpuncta and not globosa
that was betöre the author on this occasion.
Nor are Ph. longicornis in the older works of G. S. Brady (and D. ROBERTSON) included
in the list of synonyms given above. This writer seems also in the beginning not to have
dis-tinguished between Ph. globosa and interpuncta; ci. G. S. Brady, 1880, p. 154. where these
two forms are synonymized.
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