Robertgurneya is a genus of copepods, containing the following species:
- Robertgurneya arabica <small>(Noodt, 1964)</small>
- Robertgurneya brevipes <small>Wells & Rao, 1987</small>
- Robertgurneya dactylifer <small>(C. B. Wilson, 1931)</small>
- Robertgurneya dictydiophora <small>(Monard, 1928)</small>
- Robertgurneya diversa <small>Lang, 1965</small>
- Robertgurneya ecaudata <small>(Monard, 1936)</small>
- Robertgurneya erythraea <small>(A. Scott, 1902)</small>
- Robertgurneya falklandiensis <small>(Lang, 1936)</small>
- Robertgurneya hopkinsi <small>Lang, 1965</small>
- Robertgurneya ilievecensis <small>(Monard, 1935)</small>
- Robertgurneya intermedia <small>Bozic, 1955</small>
- Robertgurneya oligochaeta <small>Noodt, 1955</small>
- Robertgurneya remanei <small>Klie, 1950</small>
- Robertgurneya rostrata <small>(Gurney, 1927)</small>
- Robertgurneya simulans <small>(Norman & T. Scott, 1905)</small>
- Robertgurneya smithi <small>Hamond, 1973</small>
- Robertgurneya soyeri <small>Apostolov, 1974</small>
- Robertgurneya spinulosa <small>(G. O. Sars, 1911)</small>
- Robertgurneya tenax <small>(Brian, 1927)</small>
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.
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