GECARCINIDAE H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Paula, Danièle Guinot, Rodríguez, Paula A., Atzimba, Moreno I. & Toledano-Carrasco, Atzimba, 2025, The charismatic Gecarcinus ruricola (Linnaeus, 1758), type species of Gecarcinus Leach, 1814, with a neotype designation and genetic data, and new generic assignment, Hartnollius n. gen., for the three remaining species of the genus (Crustacea, Brachyura, Gecarcinidae), Zoosystema 47 (16), pp. 261-314 : 266

Family GECARCINIDAE H. Milne Edwards, 1837

NOMENCLATURE. — In the newly created Thoracotremata Guinot, 1977, a superfamily rank Gecarcinoidea was proposed by Guinot (1977a: 406; 1977b: 1050; 1978: 287). The family-group name Gécarciniens H. Milne Edwards, 1837 meets all the criteria of availability in accordance with the provisions of the Code ( ICZN 1999, Art. 11.7, 11.7.2). However, although authority of H. Milne Edwards is explicitly recognised by many carcinologists and despite that Türkay (1970: 335), Prahl & Manjarrés (1983: 32; 1984a: 151) and Tavares (1989: in the title and p. 5, 21) formally assigned authorship to H. Milne Edwards (1837 a), the Gecarcinidae continued to be attributed to MacLeay (1838: 63) by most authors, e.g. by Ng et al. (2008: 30, 214), Guinot et al. (2013: 40, table 7), Ng & Davie (2012: 89), Ng & Shih (2014: 112; 2015: 383; 2023: 2), Davie et al. (2015b: 1117), Ng (2017: 2). Authorship of the family-group name Gecarcinidae was already discussed in detail by Guinot et al. (2018: 602) and Tavares & Mendonça Jr (2022: 9), and is hereby – and we hope – definitively – ascribed to H. Milne Edwards (1837 a).