Robertgurneya

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title: "Robertgurneya" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["harpacticoida", "copepod-genera"] description: "Genus of crustaceans" topic_path: "general/harpacticoida" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertgurneya" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of crustaceans ::

| image = | image_caption = | taxon = Robertgurneya | authority = Apostolov & Marinov, 1988 | synonyms = Robertgurneya Lang, 1944

Robertgurneya is a genus of copepods, containing the following species:

• Robertgurneya arabica (Noodt, 1964)
• Robertgurneya brevipes Wells & Rao, 1987
• Robertgurneya dactylifer (C. B. Wilson, 1931)
• Robertgurneya dictydiophora (Monard, 1928)
• Robertgurneya diversa Lang, 1965
• Robertgurneya ecaudata (Monard, 1936)
• Robertgurneya erythraea (A. Scott, 1902)
• Robertgurneya falklandiensis (Lang, 1936)
• Robertgurneya hopkinsi Lang, 1965
• Robertgurneya ilievecensis (Monard, 1935)
• Robertgurneya intermedia Bozic, 1955
• Robertgurneya oligochaeta Noodt, 1955
• Robertgurneya remanei Klie, 1950
• Robertgurneya rostrata (Gurney, 1927)
• Robertgurneya simulans (Norman & T. Scott, 1905)
• Robertgurneya smithi Hamond, 1973
• Robertgurneya soyeri Apostolov, 1974
• Robertgurneya spinulosa (G. O. Sars, 1911)
• Robertgurneya tenax (Brian, 1927)

Taxonomic history

The genus Robertgurneya was first diagnosed by Karl Georg Herman Lang in 1944, with the name commemorating Robert Gurney. Since Lang did not designate a type species, as required by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature for generic names published since 1930, that name is not "available". The first authors to explicitly designate a type species were Apostolov & Marinov in 1988, and they are therefore considered the authors of the genus.

References

References

1. T. Chad Walter & Rony Huys. (2009). "''Robertgurneya'' Lang, 1944". [[World Register of Marine Species]].
2. Hans G. Hansson. "Dr. Robert Gurney". [[University of Gothenburg.
3. Rony Huys. (2009). "Unresolved cases of type fixation, synonymy and homonymy in harpacticoid copepod nomenclature (Crustacea: Copepoda)". [[Zootaxa]].

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