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IOC entry for Acrochaetium barbadense

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Acrochaetium barbadense (Vickers) Børgesen

Chantransia barbadensis Vickers, 1905: 60 (type locality: Barbados).

Acrochaetium barbadense (Vickers) Børgesen, 1915: 45.—Abbott, 1968: 518–520, fig. 2.

Taxonomic synonym:

* Chantransia liagorae Weber-van Bosse, 1913b: 111 (type locality: Coetivy Reef, Seychelles).—Weber-van Bosse, 1914: 275.— De Toni, 1924: 62.

Acrochaetium liagorae (Weber-van Bosse) G. Hamel, 1927: 92, nom. illeg.

Acrochaetium vanbosseae Papenfuss, 1945: 318.

INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Seychelles (Coetivy Reef).

Note: The synonymy was proposed by Abbott (1968: 518). Acrochaetium vanbosseae is a substitute name for A. liagorae (Weber-van Bosse) G. Hamel, a later homonym of A. liagorae Børgesen (1915).

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