Mandatory changes of specific names to agree in gender with Talitriator Methuen, 1913, which is masculine (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) Author Nakano, Takafumi text Zootaxa 2018 2018-09-20 4483 1 188 190 journal article 29183 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.1.8 4a34dfec-56eb-4572-bf11-abd68cfa22a6 1175-5326 1454457 4028ABDD-79B2-4729-905E-99A3EA393DFB Talitriator africanus ( Spence Bate, 1862 ) Talorchestia ? Africana Spence Bate, 1862: 15–16 , pl. 2, fig. 6. Talorchestia africana .— Stebbing, 1906: 554 . Talitriator africanus .— Stebbing, 1917: 330–331 .— Spandl, 1924: 468 . Talitrus africanus .— Hunt, 1925: 855 , 857, 860–861 (key), fig. 1c.— Hurley, 1959: 109 , fig. 1.— Hurley, 1975: 159 . Talorchestia (?) africana .— Stock & Biernbaum, 1994: 808 (in Remarks concerning Talitriator insularis Stock & Biernbaum, 1994 ). Talitriator africana .— Griffiths, 1999: 351–353 , fig. 2.— Lawes et al ., 2005: 112 .— Kotze & Lawes, 2007: 296 .— Kotze & Lawes, 2008: 738 .— Milne & Griffiths, 2013: 88 . Talistroides (sic) africana .— Kotze & Samways, 1999: 1342 (authorship was wrongly attributed to Griffiths).— Kotze & Samways, 2001: 444 . Etymology : The specific name africanus is a Latin adjective referring to the type locality, “Port Natal” (= Durban, South Africa ; Spence Bate 1862: 16 ). Remarks: The specific name’s original spelling as africana was correct in combination with the feminine generic name Talorchestia Dana, 1852 . When Stebbing (1917) moved this nominal species to Talitriator he changed the suffix accordingly, but his successors reverted to the feminine spelling.