[Taxacom] Scolopendra sagraea

[Carlos Alberto Martínez Muñoz]

 Dear Laurent,
Thank you for your reply. Another person suggested the same publication. It
is possible that the same manuscript may have influenced the work by Guérin
(1837) and the chapter Arachnides in Sagra's Histoire physique (1857).
However, the author of the latter is not Guérin but Hippolyte Lucas.
Lucas was 23 years old in 1837, when Gervais' description of *Scolopendra
sagraea* came to light. It is unlikely that Lucas would have been
commissioned by Guérin to produce the manuscript of the Cuban Arachnides
chapter already at the age of 22-23. Guérin used to pass his
myriapodological manuscripts to Gervais, at least until 1847.
Regards,
Carlos


Carlos A. Martínez Muñoz
Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland
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