Taxonavigation

Familia: Calanticidae
Subfamilia: Calanticinae
Genus: Euscalpellum
Species: Euscalpellum renei

Name

Euscalpellum renei (Gruvel, 1902): 229

• Original genus: Scalpellum
• Type locality: Angola. Saint-Paul-de-Loanda, 1886, Cavelier de Cunerville leg.
• Types: Lectotype MNHN Ci 373; paralectotypes MNHN Ci 373, by Young, 2002: 311
• Distribution: Tropical West Coast of Africa; French Guinea to Angola, 21-63 m, found on polychaete tubes and hydroids
• ZooBank

References

• Gruvel, A. 1902. Revision des Cirrhipedes appartenant ala collection du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Pedoncules. I . Partie systematique. Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, ser. 4, 4: 215–312. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 229, original description as Scalpellum renei]

• Bassindale, R. 1961. On the marine fauna of Ghana. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 137(4): 481–510. Reference page.  [See p. 485, as Smilium renei, generic re-assignment]

• 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. 108, as Euscalpellum renei, generic re-assignment]

• Young, P.S. 2002: Revision of the Scalpellidae (Crustacea, Cirripedia) in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, France, studied by Abel Gruvel. Zoosystema 24(2): 309-345. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 311, re-description, re-illustration, lectotype selection, as Euscalpellum renei]