Taxonomy Profile: Lomisidae (Bouvier 1895)

Martin & Davis (2001) note: "The family name Lomisidae and the superfamily name Lomisoidea, containing only the monotypic genus Lomis, occasionally have been spelled, beginning with Glaessner (1969), as Lomidae and Lomoidea (see especially McLaughlin, 1983a). However, the genus Lomis is not a Greek or Latin word, and thus it has no Greek or Latin stem (such as Lom-) to which the -idae ending can be added; the original author of Lomis, Bouvier, coined the French common name "Lomisine's" for these crabs (G. Poore, pers. comm.). Thus, the preferred spelling for the family is Lomisidae and for the superfamily is Lomisoidea."