TYPE SPECIMENS OF CRUSTACEA SURVIVING IN THE GUERIN-MENEVILLE COLLECTION, ACADEMY-OF-NATURAL-SCIENCES-OF-PHILADELPHIA

Most of the collection of Crustacea of the nineteenth century French n aturalist, Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville (1799-1874), is held in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Considered by some worker s to have been lost, the collection is reintroduced here to the scient ific community. Surviving in the collection are the types of 68 availa ble species named by Guerin-Meneville (many publications between 1828 and 1857), Abildgaard (1789), Eydoux (1835), Eydoux and Souleyet (1842 ), Leach (1814), Lucas (1849), Milne Edwards (1852), and Milne Edwards and Lucas (1844). Crustacean groups represented by types are the Bran chiopoda and Malacostraca (Stomatopoda, Isopoda, Amphipoda, and Decapo da).