| Cuapetes amymone | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Caridea |
| Family: | Palaemonidae |
| Genus: | Cuapetes |
| Species: | C. amymone |
| Binomial name | |
| Cuapetes amymone (De Man, 1902) | |
Cuapetes amymone is a species of shrimp found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. [1] It was first named by Johannes Govertus de Man in 1902. [1]
In Greek mythology, Amymone was a daughter of Danaus, king of Libya and Europe, a queen. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identical to Hypermnestra, also the one Danaid who did not assassinate her Egyptian husband on their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. The author of the Bibliotheca, in his list of names for the Danaids, does mention both Hypermnestra and Amymone, however.
Johannes Govertus de Man, was a Dutch biologist. He was assistant curator at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden, where he specialised in free-living nematodes and decapod crustaceans, although he also wrote papers on flatworms, sipunculids and, in his dissertation only, vertebrates. His change away from vertebrates disappointed the director of the museum, and de Man left his job there after eleven years. For the rest of his life, de Man worked at his parents' house in Middelburg and later at a house near the shore at Yerseke in the Oosterschelde estuary, relying on his family's private income.
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Nicochares was an Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, son of the comic playwright Philonides and contemporary with Aristophanes. The titles of Nicochares' plays, as enumerated by Suidas, are, Αμυμώνη (Amymone), Πέλοψ (Pelops), Γαλάτεια (Galatea), Ηρακλής Γάμων, Ηρακλής Χορηγός, Κρήτες (Cretans), Λάκωνες, Λημνίαι, Κένταυροι (Centaurs), and Χειρογάστορες. Augustus Meineke suggested that the Amymone and Pelops may have been alternative names for the same work, as the Suda lists the two works together when all of the others are in alphabetical order, and a fragment of Amymone quoted by Athenaeus mentions Oenomaus, the father-in-law of Pelops.
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