Part 1 - AToL Decapoda

202 De Grave & Fransen. Carideorum catalogus (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zool. Med. Leiden 85 (2011)
The present case mirrors the consistent usage of H. Milne Edwards in publications
by that author, whose surname was Edwards, but who added Milne to distinguish himself
from his brother William Edwards (see Forest, 1996). As we can see no reason why
the name Charles Spence Bate should be treated different to Henri Milne Edwards, we
here accept the arguments put forward by Dubois (2008) in that authors are signatures
and not persons, and thus have elected to use the name C. Spence Bate.
For the father and son team of Henri Milne Edwards and Alphonse Milne-Edwards,
we herein follow Forest (1996) in the spelling of their surnames, and have added, as is
customary in carcinology, their initial to all citations. Issues surrounding the use of
Guérin and Guérin-Méneville were discussed in Ng et al. (2008) and we follow here
their lead in attributing names after 1836 onwards to Guérin-Méneville and before 1836
to Guérin.
Ng et al. (2008) also provide a more in depth discussion on the spelling of author
names and how these should be cited in the references. As we herein adhere to the same
rules, we refer the reader to that treatise.
In those instances where different taxa have been described by different authors
who share the same surname, we generally have adopted the same rules as outlined in
Ng et al. (2008). In brief, we do not add the authors initials to the person having described
significantly more taxa, but add those to the author having described fewer.
For instance, for taxa described by Peter K.L. Ng we do not add P.K.L. in front of the
surname, whilst we do so for Ngan Kee Ng (thus N.K. Ng). As in Ng et al. (2008) we
do not include initials if the authors were not contemporaries, the intervening time lag
making this sufficiently obvious. For instance, J.Y. Johnson (1863, 1868) and D.S. Johnson
(1961, 1962, 1967, 1973). A special case is the citation of first names for workers of
Chinese descent or nationality, where fashion has dictated how names are used rather
than bibliographical accuracy. For instance, the Chinese freshwater carcinologist Guo
Zhao Liang has published under the names Guo Zhaoliang (abbreviated to Guo, Z.),
Guo Zhao-Liang (Guo, Z.-L.) and Guo Zhao Liang (Guo, Z.L.). As it is evident that in
all three cases this is the same worker, we have elected not to include his initials in the
citations, others, more purists perhaps, may disagree. In the case of the team of A.H.
”Hank” and D.M. ”Dora” Banner, who described numerous alpheid taxa, often jointly,
they stated several times in their larger publications (e.g. Banner & Banner, 1978; Banner
& Banner, 1981a) that they list their own papers in strict chronological order, without
reference to seniority of authorship. We have herein interpreted this as a desire to
reflect a joint effort with order of authorship, perhaps somewhat arbitrarily decided
upon and a reflection of equal share in the description. As such we have elected to not
add initials to citations in the checklist, although order of authorship in the references
is as given in the actual papers to facilitate bibliographical searches. All this makes for
less cumbersome citations, however in other cases, we had no option but to include
initials.
Notes on authorship of taxa
As extensively discussed by Ng et al. (2008) attributing the correct author to a certain
taxon can be confusing, particularly (but not exclusively) in the earlier literature.
Often in the earlier literature another carcinologists’ name is cited behind the species