At 09:26 PM 8/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Hi to all,
>
>I have a few more questions on the Polymita descriptions.
>
>Polymita brocheri ("Gutierrez" Pfeiffer 1864) : this is as cited by C.
>de la Torre in his
>monograph.
>

Kurt, as always, is right. But a bit more on the subject. Pfeiffer was
notorious for citing other people as authors - Gutierrez, Maltzan, etc. In
my research on the Annulariidae (in which Pfeiffer named hundreds of
species) I see this a lot. In every case Pfeiffer was working from a
manuscript name or simply a name on a label. You have to give Pfeiffer
credit for trying NOT to take credit for these names, but Pfeiffer is the
one who published them.

G. Thomas Watters
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Ohio State University
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