Smilium scorpio

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Calanticomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Calanticomorpha

Familia: Calanticidae
Subfamilia: Calanticinae
Genus: Smilium
Species: Smilium scorpio

Name

• Smilium scorpio (Aurivillius, 1892): 126
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Stratigraphic and geologic range: Pleistocene, Japan; Recent, Gulf of Thailand, East and South China Sea, China, Taiwan, Japan; 31-140 m.
  • Type locality: China Sea, 50 miles south of Amboy, 1000 fathoms.
  • Typus: Natural History Museum, Stockholm (SMNH)
  • ZooBank: C3BF0B07-9015-4E24-BF9D-6B3DAEC070A6

Synonymy

• Calantica pedunculostriata Broch, 1931:
  • Type locality:
  • Typus:
  • Synonymized in:
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• Scalpellum sexcornutum Pilsbry, 1897: 723
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  • Typus: ANSP 6599
  • Synonymized in: Pilsbry, 1908: 107
  • ZooBank: 38AD7036-A4E3-4689-89E3-47C4037C5D66

References

• Aurivillius, C.W.S. 1892: Neue Cirripeden aus dem Atlantishchen, Indischen und Stillen Ocean. Öfversigt Kongliga veten-skaps-akademiens förhandlingar, 49(3): 123–134. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 126, original description as Scalpellum scorpio]

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• Broch, H. 1931: Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-1916. LVI. Indomalayan Cirripedia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, 91: 1–146. Reference page.  [See p. 6, as Calantica scorpio, generic re-assignment, and Calantica pedunculostriata, junior synonym]
• Jones, D.S., Hewitt, M.A. & Sampey, A. 2000. A checklist of the Cirripedia of the South China Sea. In The Biodiversity of South China Sea. Raffles bulletin of zoology, supplement (8): 233–307. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 248, distribution, references]
• Karasawa, H. 2020. Cenozoic pedunculate barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) deposited in the Mizunami Fossil Museum, Japan. Buletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 47: 21–40. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.47.0_21 pdf Reference page.  [See p. 23, fossil occurrence]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1897. Description of a remarkable Japanese cirripede. The American Naturalist 31(368): 723–724. DOI: 10.1086/276699 BHL Reference page.  [See p. 723, as Scalpellum sexcornutum, junior synonym]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1908. On the classification of scalpelliform barnacles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 60(1): 104–111. JSTOR BHL Reference page.  [See p. 107, as Smilium scorpio, generic re-assignment, synonymized Scalpellum sexcornutum]
• Zevina, G.B. 1981. Barnacles of the suborder Lepadomorpha (Cirripedia, Thoracica) of the world oceans. I: Family Scalpellidae. Fauna SSSR, 127: 1-398. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 79, synonymy, redescription]