This species was first described by Wilhelm Roux in 1906 and was named in honour of the German zoologist Gustav Tornier.
He also attended university in Berlin and Strasbourg and studied under Gustav Schwalbe, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Rudolf Virchow.
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