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PART 1 GARTH: PACIFIC OXYRHYNCHA 45
with Dr. Yanez that the ultimate status of E. latreillei, whether as
one species or more than one, should rest with persons having access to
abundant fresh material, it is his hope that such a final study will be
attempted by someone as thoroughly versed in the literature as, and
possessed of an array of comparative material not less extensive than
that available to, Miers, Lagerberg, or Rathbun.
The excellent review of the species by Lagerberg (1905) should
be supplemented by the discussion of Stebbing (1914), who corrects
the spelling of an otherwise impeccable synonymy while noting that
Lagerberg erroneously credited H. Milne Edwards, instead of Guerin,
with the Crustacea of the Goquille. In an earlier paper Stebbing (1900)
expressed regret that Miers, writing in 1881 and 1886, failed to include
reference to Targioni-Tozzetti (1877), on whose work his opinion
would have been invaluable. Stebbing also presents convincing evidence
to the effect that Dana (1855) may have relied too strongly on his
memory in assigning fig. d of plate 3 to Eurypodius latreillei in the
explanation of plates after the original drawings had been destroyed by
fire.
Other items gleaned from a review of the historical treatment accorded the species include an early reference to the genus as occurring in
the Indian Ocean (H. Milne Edwards, 1834), whereas the only species
known at that time was Eurypodius latreillei of the Falkland Islands
(Philippi, 1894, p. 266). This may account for Smith's (1869) reference to an East Indian locality for the species, for many a New Eng-
lander of his day held similarly vague ideas concerning the geographical
position of "les lies Malouines."
The collections of the Velero III are drawn from a relatively narrow sector of the species range and do not exhibit the extremes of variation shown in series from more widely separated localities. The collections of the Hamburg Museum from north Chile and those of the Lund
University Chile Expedition from south Chile are therefore opportunely
come by. While the possibility of correlating intraspecific variation with
geographical distribution is an intriguing one, it is not proposed here to
alter the present systematic arrangement. The contribution made by
the Velero III collections is rather to define with greater precision the
northern limit of range of the species on the Pacific coast of South
America, substituting Independencia Bay for the more general designation "Peru" that has obtained since the voyage of the Bonite (Eydoux
and Souleyet, 1842-43).
The accompanying illustration of the male first pleopod (Plate B,
fig. 1) supports the withdrawal by Balss (1929) of Eurypodius from
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| Full text | PART 1 GARTH: PACIFIC OXYRHYNCHA 45 with Dr. Yanez that the ultimate status of E. latreillei, whether as one species or more than one, should rest with persons having access to abundant fresh material, it is his hope that such a final study will be attempted by someone as thoroughly versed in the literature as, and possessed of an array of comparative material not less extensive than that available to, Miers, Lagerberg, or Rathbun. The excellent review of the species by Lagerberg (1905) should be supplemented by the discussion of Stebbing (1914), who corrects the spelling of an otherwise impeccable synonymy while noting that Lagerberg erroneously credited H. Milne Edwards, instead of Guerin, with the Crustacea of the Goquille. In an earlier paper Stebbing (1900) expressed regret that Miers, writing in 1881 and 1886, failed to include reference to Targioni-Tozzetti (1877), on whose work his opinion would have been invaluable. Stebbing also presents convincing evidence to the effect that Dana (1855) may have relied too strongly on his memory in assigning fig. d of plate 3 to Eurypodius latreillei in the explanation of plates after the original drawings had been destroyed by fire. Other items gleaned from a review of the historical treatment accorded the species include an early reference to the genus as occurring in the Indian Ocean (H. Milne Edwards, 1834), whereas the only species known at that time was Eurypodius latreillei of the Falkland Islands (Philippi, 1894, p. 266). This may account for Smith's (1869) reference to an East Indian locality for the species, for many a New Eng- lander of his day held similarly vague ideas concerning the geographical position of "les lies Malouines." The collections of the Velero III are drawn from a relatively narrow sector of the species range and do not exhibit the extremes of variation shown in series from more widely separated localities. The collections of the Hamburg Museum from north Chile and those of the Lund University Chile Expedition from south Chile are therefore opportunely come by. While the possibility of correlating intraspecific variation with geographical distribution is an intriguing one, it is not proposed here to alter the present systematic arrangement. The contribution made by the Velero III collections is rather to define with greater precision the northern limit of range of the species on the Pacific coast of South America, substituting Independencia Bay for the more general designation "Peru" that has obtained since the voyage of the Bonite (Eydoux and Souleyet, 1842-43). The accompanying illustration of the male first pleopod (Plate B, fig. 1) supports the withdrawal by Balss (1929) of Eurypodius from |
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