Cancer neptuni Linnaeus, 1768 (now Alima neptuni ): original description, authorship and date of publication (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae)

The original description of the stomatopod species Cancer neptuni (currently known as Alima neptuni ) has been accepted as being published in the third volume of the twelfth edition of the Systema naturae by Linnaeus (1768a: 226) by virtually all authors (e.g., Manning & Lewinsohn 1986: 13; Holthuis 2000: 17, 18; Ahyong 2001: 188; Ahyong 2002: 362; Ahyong 2005: 206; Lucatelli et al . 2012: 282). Linnaeus (1768a) is known to have been published after 28 January 1768 because a publication of that date is cited in the Prefatio of that work (p. [3], footnote).