Southern African dictionary

Tony, you sent me a spreadsheet of selected Crustacea to check on 2016-10-25. I never got round to it. But here is an opportunistic pair of corrections, please. I stumbled upon a huge paper about the Gammaridae that was published last year.

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1. Please “remove” from the list by making a genus-genus synonym:

Genus Roropisa.

Roropisa G. Karaman, 1984 is a junior synonym of Victoriopisa Karaman & Barnard, 1979. The latter genus is in our list.

Proof: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Roropisa G. Karaman, 1984.

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1. Please “remove” from the visible list this family:

Family Gammaridae.

Reason: Extralimital.

Proof: review of Gammaridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda): the family extent, its evolutionary history, and taxonomic redefinition of genera | Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Oxford Academic (free).

Also note that the offending genus above (Roropisa) is presently in the iSpot dixionary wrongly placed in this family. The genus should have been in Eriopisidae, where the senior synonym Victoriopisa is indeed correctly placed.

Proof: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Victoriopisa Karaman & Barnard, 1979

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1. Note.

I have no opinion about the included species here.

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1. Coda.

Don’t you agree that this program is novel in the way that it numbers an automatically numbered list?