• [Note: a problem in nomenclature. The genus-group name Anacantholepis first appears in Santschi, 1914b: 122 (date of publication 25.ii.1914), and includes two species, Plagiolepis jouberti and Plagiolepis pictipes. This publication almost certainly antedates Santschi, 1914e: 36 (date of publication (31.xii).1914, according to Bolton, 1995b: 481 and Ward et al., 1996: 319), where two different species are mentioned: Plagiolepis decora, and Plagiolepis vanderkelleni. It would appear that under ICZN Articles 12.2.5, 12.2.6, and 12.2.7 that Santschi, 1914b: 122, provides an indication which renders Anacantholepis available from that date. If so, the type-species should be either Plagiolepis jouberti or Plagiolepis pictipes. Note that Santschi, 1926a: 15, counts Santschi, 1914e as the initial record. This small nomenclatural tangle remains to be resolved.]
• Anacantholepis as genus: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 212.
• Anacantholepis as subgenus of Plagiolepis: Santschi, 1914e: 36; Forel, 1917: 249; Arnold, 1922: 581; Wheeler, 1922: 696; Emery, 1925d: 22; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 622; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 20.
• Anacantholepis as junior synonym of Plagiolepis: Brown, 1973b: 178 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1422; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 2003: 105, 268.

Obsolete classifications

• Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis)

Citations

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