WoRMS taxon details
original description
Bousfield E.L. & Chevrier A. (1996). The Amphipod Family Oedicerotidae on the Pacific Coast of North America. 1. The Monoculodes & Synchelidium Generic Complexes: Systematics and Distributional Ecology. Amphipacifica, 2, 2, 75-148. [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Remark Bousfield & Chevrier, 1996 used the same type species, Monoculodes spinipes Mills, 1962b, for two genera: Americhelidium Bousfield & Chevrier, 1996: 122 and Pacifoculodes Bousfield & Chevrier, 1996: 102. Americhelidium has page preference, but if both species have the same type species then which genus does it actually define and how is the problem solved? If each is a valid genus then is it possible to select another type species for one of the genera? [details]
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