Amphipoda taxon details
original description
Barnard, J.L. (1969). The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 271: 1-535. page(s): 412 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Quasimodia Sheard, 1936) Sheard K. (1936b). Amphipods of the phliantid group in the South Australian Museum, with a suggested division of the family. Records of the South Australian Museum, 5, pp. 456-468;6 figs. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Nakano, T.; Lowry, J. K. (2019). The correct authorship of the amphipod genus-group name <em>Quasimodia</em> (Senticaudata: Hyaloidea: Phliantidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4671(3): 449-450., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4671.3.12 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
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. [details]
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