WoRMS name details
Maera vagans K.H. Barnard, 1940
534565 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534565)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Species
Elasmopus barnardi Shoemaker, 1948 · unaccepted (replacement name)
Elasmopus levis K.H. Barnard, 1916 · unaccepted (junior homonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Barnard, K.H. (1940). Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 12. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of hitherto recorded marine and fresh-water species. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 32: 381-543., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40891186 [details] Available for editors 
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Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m)
Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m) [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copila?-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2024). World Amphipoda Database. Maera vagans K.H. Barnard, 1940. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534565 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Barnard, K.H. (1940). Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 12. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of hitherto recorded marine and fresh-water species. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 32: 381-543., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40891186 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Elasmopus levis K.H. Barnard, 1916) Barnard, K. H. (1916). Contributions to the Crustacean Fauna of South Africa n° 5. The Amphipoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 15(3): 105-302., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11101068
page(s): 200 [details]
original description (of Elasmopus barnardi Shoemaker, 1948) Shoemaker, C. R. (1948). The amphipoda of the Smithsonian-Roebling Expedition to Cuba in 1937. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 110(3): 1-15.
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replacement name source Barnard, K.H. (1940). Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 12. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of hitherto recorded marine and fresh-water species. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 32: 381-543., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40891186 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request] original description (of Elasmopus levis K.H. Barnard, 1916) Barnard, K. H. (1916). Contributions to the Crustacean Fauna of South Africa n° 5. The Amphipoda. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 15(3): 105-302., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11101068
page(s): 200 [details]
original description (of Elasmopus barnardi Shoemaker, 1948) Shoemaker, C. R. (1948). The amphipoda of the Smithsonian-Roebling Expedition to Cuba in 1937. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 110(3): 1-15.
page(s): 10 [details] Available for editors
[request] replacement name source Barnard, K.H. (1940). Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 12. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of hitherto recorded marine and fresh-water species. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 32: 381-543., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40891186 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m) [details]Remark Stephensen (1932) lists Elasmopus levis (S.I. Smith, 1873) and E. levis K.H. Barnard, 1916 together. K.H. Barnard (1940), considering his E. levis as a junior homonym, give it the replacement name Maera vagans. But if it is really a Maera then it doesn’t need a replacement name. Griffiths (1973, 1974a-c, 1975) records Maera vagans from southern Africa. Shoemaker (1948) pointed out that K.H. Barnard (1916) described another E. levis from South Africa (a junior homonym), and not knowing about Barnard’s replacement name, he then gave it another replacement name, E. barnardi (Shoemaker, 1948). According to Krapp-Schickel (2008a) it is a dubious species. [details]
