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nus, and listed P. actumnoides A. Milne Edwards, 1873, P. nitidus A. Milne Edwards, 1873, P.
longipes A. Milne Edwards, 1873, P. fissifrons Stimpson, 1858, P. dilatipes Adams and White,
1849, P. vauquelinii Audouin, 1826, and P. savignyi Heller, 1861, under this name. No type
species was designated then. Most workers have since closely associated the name Eupilumnus with
Pilumnus Leach, 1815, and even regard them as synonyms. Rathbun (1930), however, had already
selected Pilumnus actumnoides A. Milne Edwards, 1873, as the type species and this action is perfectly
valid. As the type species of Globopilumnus Balss, 1933, is Pilumnus globosus Dana, 1852 (by original
designation); and Pilumnus globosus Dana, 1852, and Pilumnus actumnoides A. Milne Edwards,
1873, are both regarded as congeneric; this effectively makes Pilumnus (Eupilumnus) Kossmann,
1877, a senior synonym of Globopilumnus Balss, 1933. It is also useful to note that Eupilumnus Kossmann,
1877, is also a senior homonym of Eupilumnus Kingsley, 1880 (type species Eupilumnus websteri
Kingsley, 1880), the latter which is now regarded as a junior synonym of the trapeziid Domecia
Eydoux and Souleyet, 1842 (type species Domecia hispida Eydoux and Souleyet, 1842).
Subfamily Eriphiinae MacLeay, 1838
Eriphia scabricula Dana, 1852 — Sakai, 1939; Horikawa, 1940; Lin, 1949; Chang, 1963; Hwang
and Yu, 1980; Suzuki, 1985; Dai, Yang, Song and Chen, 1986; Dai and Yang, 1991; Tzeng
and Chen, 1992; Huang, 1994; Wang and Liu, 1996a; Yu, Jeng, Chan, Ho and Shy, 1996;
Jeng, 1997, 1998; Wang and Liu, 1998
Eriphia sebana (Shaw and Nodder, 1803) (= Eriphia laevimana Guerin-Meneville, 1829)—Maki
and Tsuchiya, 1923; Horikawa, 1940; Lin, 1949; Tzeng and Chen, 1992; Wang and Liu,
1996a; Yu, Jeng, Chan, Ho and Shy, 1996; Jeng, 1997; Jeng, Jan, Tzeng and Feng, 1997;
Lai, Huang and Fang, 1997, 1998; Ng, 1998; Wang and Liu, 1998 + W\yd&,\Ht3
Eriphia smithii MacLeay, 1838 ( = Eriphia laevimana smithii)—Balss, 1922c; Maki and Tsuchiya,
1923; Lin, 1949; Chang, 1963; Chang and Chen, 1992; Jeng, Jan, Tzeng, Feng and Yang,
1996; Wang and Liu, 1996a; Jeng, Jan, Tzeng and Feng, 1997; Lai, Huang and Fang, 1997;
Jeng, Shao, Tzeng, Feng and Wu, 1998; Ng, 1998; Wang and Liu, 1998 [S. K. Koh and P.
K. L. Ng (unpublished data) have shown that the real E. smithii is restricted to the western Indian
Ocean, and specimens of " E. smithii" from the eastern Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and eastern
Pacific, including Taiwan, actually belong to a new species which is now being described. Until
this study is published, we retain the name E. smithii for the Taiwanese specimens for convenience.
]
Subfamily Dacryopilumninae Serene, 1984
Dacryopilumnus rathbunae Balss, 1932 — Suzuki, 1985
Subfamily Menippinae Ortmann, 1893
Hypothalassia armata (De Haan, 1835) — Jeng, Jan, Tzeng and Feng, 1997; Ng, 1998; Ho, Yu
and Ng, 2000; Koh and Ng, 2000
Menippe rumphii (Fabricius, 1798) — Ho and Hung, 1997; Jeng, Jan, Tzeng and Feng, 1997; Lai,
Huang and Fang, 1997; Jeng, Shao, Tzeng, Feng and Wu, 1998; Ng, 1998; Chou, Lai and
Fang, 1999; Lee and Tung, 2000