Strophiops vagabunda Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1925

Synonymy

Strophiops albata Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1921b [July 15]:145 [not S. albata Maynard & Clapp in Maynard, 1921a].

Strophiops vagabunda Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1925:pl. 41, figs. 7, 8.; Harasewych et al., 2007:521-522, fig. 248.

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Geographic Distribution: New Providence and Adjacent Islands, Bahama Islands.

Type Locality: Southern end of Rose Island, New Providence Island, Bahamas. [25° 9' N, 77° 23' W]

Type Material: Lectotype, MCZ 76258

The type specimens and type locality of Strophiops albata Maynard & Clapp in Maynard, 1921 (see Taxon 214) are also the type specimens and type locality of S. vagabunda Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1925.

Remarks

The binomen Strophiops vagabunda appeared under figures cited in the original description of Strophiops albata Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1921,  but published four years later. Strophiops albata Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1921b is a junior homonym of S. albata Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1921a.  Clench (1957:166) recognized Strophiops vagabunda Maynard and Clapp in Maynard, 1925 to be a replacement name for S. albata Maynard & Clapp in Maynard, 1921b, not S. albata Maynard & Clapp in Maynard, 1921a.

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