: 640) for a further description and discussion of this problematic species.
Noteworthy changes have been made in recent years in the authorship, spelling of specific epithets, or replacement of a specific epithet (in the case of Atlanta brunnea). Seven of the species of Atlanta originally described by Souleyet (1852) from the Bonite Expedition of 1836/1837 have survived to the present. Souleyet included in his species descriptions only the vernacular names (e.g., 'Atlante de Gaudichaud' and 'Atlanta Gaudichaudii, nobis'). Unfortunately for Souleyet, J. E. Gray (1850) had earlier latinized Souleyet's names in an "Explanation of Plates" that was part of the third of a five volume (1842-1857) collection of illustrations copied by his wife, M. E. Gray from the then-existing literature, which included those from an Eydoux and Souleyet atlas of 1841? (for a more complete discussion, see the Preface in Janssen and Seapy, 2009). As a result, J. E. Gray formally became the author of all but one (A. gibbosa) of Souleyet's species. In addition, the spelling of three specific epithets changed and one epithet was replaced (A. brunnea for A. fusca). The seven affected species are:
- Atlanta brunnea Gray, 1850 (= Atlanta fusca Souleyet, 1852)
- Atlanta gaudichaudi Gray, 1850 (= Atlanta gaudichaudii Souleyet, 1852)
- Atlanta helicinoidea Gray. 1850 (= Atlanta helicinoides Souleyet, 1852)
- Atlanta inclinata Gray, 1850 (= Atlanta inclinata Souleyet, 1852)
- Atlanta inflata Gray, 1850 (= Atlanta inflata Souleyet, 1852)
- Atlanta lesueurii Gray, 1850 (= Atlanta lesueurii Souleyet, 1852)
- Atlanta rosea Gray, 1850 (= Atlanta rosea Souleyet, 1852)
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