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Show 552 REV. T. R. R. STEBBING ON CRUSTACEANS [May 22, FLABELLIFERA. 1882. Flabellifera, Sars, Christiania Vidensk. Forh. no. 18, p. 58. 1897. Flabellifera, Sars, Crustacea of Norway, vol. ii. pt. 3, p. 43. See also the references under the Tribe Asellota for other notices of the present tribe. Fam. SPH.EROMID.1:. 1840. ' Spheromiens,' Milne-Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crust, vol. iii. p. 197. 1847. Sphceromidce, White, List of Crustacea in Brit. Mus. p. 102. 1853. Spheromidce, Dana, U.S. Expl. Exped. vol. xiii., Crust. pt. ii. p. 748. 1857. Sphceromidce, White, Popular Hist. British Crustacea, p. 244. 1867. Sphceromidce, Bate & Westwood, Brit. Sessile-eyed Crust. vol. ii. p. 398. 1876. Sphceromidce, Miers, Crustacea of N e w Zealand, p. 109. 1880. Sphceromidce, Kossmann, Zool. Ergebn. einer Beise Both en Meeres, p. 111. 1880. Sphceromidce, Harger, Bep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries for 1878, pt. 6, p. 367. 1886. Sphceromidce, Beddard, ' Challenger' Isopoda, Beports, vol. xvii. p. 145. 1893. Sphceromidce, Stebbing, Hist. Crust., Internat. Sci. Ser. vol. lxxiv. p. 359. 1900. Sphceromidce, H. Bichardson, The American Naturalist, vol. xxxiv. p. 222. By what must be regarded as a very unlucky accident this family is not at present represented in the fauna of Norway, so that we are without the light which would otherwise certainly have been shed upon it in the recently published work on Norwegian Isopoda by Professor G. O. Sars. The genus Sphceroma, from which the family takes its name, was instituted by Bosc, or by Latreille in Bosc's Hist. nat. des Crustaces, vol. ii. p. 182, in the year 1802. As Guerin-Meneville has pointed out in his ' Iconographie,' there was for long a great confusion as to the synonymy of the typical species. All that can now be determined is, that Bosc included in the genus the Oniscus conglobator of Pallas, 1766 (which Pallas himself identifies with Oniscus asilus Linn., 1758), and as a synonym of this the Cymothoa serrata of Fabricius, 1793, earlier described as Oniscus serratus in the 'Mantissa,' 1787. Pallas had before this changed the name of his species to globator, and authors, in long succession, with the exception of Guerin-Meneville, have united the species of Pallas with that of Fabricius and yet inconsistently adopted the name serratum in preference to the earlier globator or conglobator. |