Scottia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cypridoidea
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: Oligostraca Classis: Ostracoda Subclassis: Podocopa Ordo: Podocopida Subordo: Cypridocopina Superfamilia: Cypridoidea

Familia: Cyprididae
Subfamilia: Scottiinae
Tribus: Scottiini
Genus: Scottia
Recent species: S. audax – S. birigida – ?S. insularis – S. pseudobrowniana

Fossil species: †S. bonei – †S. browniana – ?†S. candonaeformis – †S. dacica – †S. kempfi – †S. tumida

Name

Scottia G. S. Brady & Norman, 1889

• Gender: feminine
• Status: valid genus
• Etymology: Named after Mr. Thomas Scott, the collector of many ostracod species.
• Type species: Scottia pseudobrowniana Kempf, 1971
  • Fixation: designated under the plenary powers by ICZN (1996: 130)
  • placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by ICZN (1996: 130)

Synonyms

• Scottiana Carus, 1890
  • proposed new replacement name for Scottia Brady & Norman, 1889

References

Primary references

• Brady, G.S. & Norman, A.M. 1889: A monograph of the marine and freshwater Ostracoda of the North Atlantic and of north-western Europe. Section I: Podocopa. The Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society (Series 2), 4 (2): 63–270.
• ICZN 1996: OPINION 1836. Scottia Brady & Norman, 1889 (Crustacea, Ostracoda): Scottia pseudobrowniana Kempf, 1971 designated as the type species. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 53 (2): 130–131. ISSN: 0007-5167 BHL
• Kempf, E.K. 1971: Ökologie, Taxonomie und Verbreitung der nichtmarinen Ostrakoden-Gattung Scottia im Quartär von Europa. Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 22: 43–63. PDF
• Kempf, E.K. 1994: Case 2896. Scottia Brady & Norman, 1889 (Crustacea, Ostracoda): proposed designation of Scottia pseudobrowniana Kempf, 1971 as the type species. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 51 (4): 304–305. ISSN: 0007-5167 BHL
  • Comments on the proposed designation of Scottia pseudobrowniana Kempf, 1971 as the type species of Scottia Brady & Norman, 1889 (Crustacea, Ostracoda).
  • Comment on the proposed designation of S. pseudobrowniana Kempf, 1971 as the type species of Scottia Brady & Norman, 1889 (Crustacea, Ostracoda).

Additional references

• De Deckker, P. 1983: Terrestrial ostracods in Australia. Australian Museum Memoir, 18 (7): 87–100. ISSN: 0067-1967 DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1967.18.1984.374
• Smith, R.J., Matzke-Karasz, R., Kamiya, T. & Ikeda, Y. 2002. Scottia birigida sp. nov. (Cypridoidea: Ostracoda) from western Honshu, Japan and a key to the subfamily Scottiinae Bronstein, 1947. Zootaxa 126: 1–20. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Webber, W.R. et al. 2010: [Chapter] EIGHT Phylum ARTHROPODA SUBPHYLUM CRUSTACEA shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98-232 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Australian Faunal Directory
• Catalogue of Life: 2010 Annual Checklist [needs work, only has the fossil species Scottia browniana, record harvested from ITIS]
• EoL [needs work, only has the fossil species Scottia browniana, record harvested from CoL]
• ITIS [needs work, only has the fossil species Scottia browniana]

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