genus
Spertor Kasalo & Skejo, 2025
Nomenclature (2)
- Spertor Kasalo & Skejo, 2025 in Kasalo, Brouste, Desutter-Grandcolas, Hervé, Bogić & Skejo, 2025: 370.
type species by original designation Spertor solus Kasalo & Skejo, 2025
- Spertor Kasalo & Skejo, 2025 (incertae sedis in Tetrigidae Rambur, 1838)
Nomenclature references (1)
- Kasalo, N., Brouste, D., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Hervé, C., Bogić, D. & Skejo, J. (2025) Atlas of New Caledonian Tetrigidae with preliminary suprageneric classification of Batrachideinae. Zoosystema, 47(18), 327–397. https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a18
Descendants and synonyms
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The name is coined from the Latin verb spērō, spērāre, meaning “to hope”, fused with the Latin suffix -tor used to form a third declension masculine agent noun. Spertor, the one who hopes, is thus a masculine gender noun. The name references the fact that only a single specimen of this genus is known, and its long antennae, with which it may hope to find company.
Stats
| Taxon | Valid names | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| species | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |