FAMILY ECTINOSOMATIDAE

General Notes

1. Revisions and redescriptions.

The most recent revision is by Lang (1948) but Lang (1965) gives a further partial revision, with valuable comments on many genera and with keys to Ectinosoma, Halectinosoma, Bradya and Pseudobradya.

Kunz (1974a) has revised Sigmatidium, Pseudectinosoma, Lineosoma and Noodtiella.

2. In addition to those cited in the keys these species are not included in the catalogues of Lang and Bodin:

Ectinosoma virginiensis Coull, 1971a, vervoorti Soyer, 1971a, pruvoti Soyer, 1971a, mediterraneum Kunz, 1974a, reductum listensis Mielke, 1975, soyeri Apostolov, 1975, barbicauda Bozic, 1978

Halectinosoma dimorphum Coull, 1970b, paradistinctum Soyer, 1972, travei Soyer, 1972, valeriae Soyer, 1972, monardi Soyer, 1972, rouchi Soyer, 1972, pterinum Moore, 1974, winonae Coull, 1975, paraspinicauda Bodin, 1977, otakoua Wells, Hicks & Coull, 1982, hydrofuge Wells, Hicks & Coull, 1982

Bradya (B.) minutiseta Soyer, 1973a, theodori Soyer, 1973a, pugiochaeta Arlt, 1983

Pseudobradya brevicaudata Soyer, 1974a, spinulosa Soyer, 1974a, peresi Soyer, 1974a, banyulensis Soyer, 1974a, truncatiseta Soyer, 1974a, soyeri Bodiou, 1974a, psammophila Bodiou, 1974a

Sigmatidium parvulum Mielke, 1974

Arenosetella duriensis Galhano, 1970, bidentata Ito, 1972, monensis Moore, 1976, fimbriaticauda McLachlan & Moore, 1978, tenuissima McLachlan & Moore, 1978, littoralis Bodin, 1977, germanica galapagoensis Mielke, 1979, paramensis Mielke, 1981b, macronychospina Mielke, 1981b, longiseta Kunz, 1983

Noodtiella gracile Mielke, 1975

3. The male of these species has now been described:

Ectinosoma obtusum, by Wells, 1964, californicum, by Wells,1967.

Halectinosoma tenuireme, by Kunz, 1949.

4. This species is inadequately described:

Tetanopsis typicus.