Taxonavigation

Familia: Calanticidae
Genus: Smilium
Species: Smilium acutum

Name

• Smilium acutum (Hoek, 1883): 80
  • Original genus: Scalpellum
  • Type locality: Challenger station 78, 37° 24' N, 25° 13' W, 1000 fathoms
  • Types:
  • Distribution: Cosmopolitan in deep seas, 61-480 m
  • ZooBank

References

• Hoek, P.P.C. 1883. Report on the Cirripedia collected by Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology. 8(25): 1–169. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 80, original description, as Scalpellum acutum]

• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 256, synonymy and distribution]

• 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, generic re-assignment of Scalpellum acutum and Scalpellum longirostrum]

• 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. 336, synonymized Scalpellum longirostrum]

• Young, P.S. 2003. Redescription of the calanticids (Cirripedia, Scalpellomorpha) described by Wilhelm Weltner. Zoosystematics and evolution, 79(1): 181–201. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.20030790103 Readcube Reference page.  [See Table 1]

• 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.  [discussion]