Scillaelepas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scalpelliformes
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 Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Scalpelliformes

Familia: Calanticidae
Subfamilia: Scillaelepadinae
Genus: Scillaelepas
Species (5): S. carinata – †S. dannigeri – S. fosteri – †S. paronae – †S. pittensis

[source: WoRMS]
NOTE: Following species-group taxa have been widely published and cited as Scillaelepas, but have been reassigned: S. bocquetae – S. calyculus – S. falcata – S. mirifica – S. pilsbryi

Check: S. ornata – Seguenza, 1876 S. studeri

Name

• Scillaelepas Seguenza, 1876: 390
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Geological range: ?Eocene; Miocene to Recent
  • Type species:: Pollicipes carinatus Philippi, 1835, by original designation
  • ZooBank: 177A012C-DD62-47CF-A2FF-936E6EFE72E1

References

• Seguenza, G. 1876: Recirche Paleontologiche intorno ai Cirripedi terziari della provincia de Messina. Con appendici intorno ai Cirripedi viventi nel Mediterraneo e sui fossili terziari dell'Italia Meridionale Parte II Lepadidae (1876). Atti della Accademia Pontaniana 10: 367-481. full articleReference page.  [See p. 390, original designation]

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• Di Geronimo, R. 2009: A new species of Gruvelialepas Newman, 1980 (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the northern Atlantic and remarks on living and fossil closely-related genera. Zoosystema, 31(1): 63–70. PDF Reference page. 
• Gale, A.S., Rosso, A. & Vertino, A. 2021. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) and a review of the history of Mediterranean Cainozoic cirripedes. Cainozoic Research 21(1)ː 3–73. Reference page.  See p. 6, discussion, some allotment of species, geologic range]
• Newman, W.A. 1980: A review of extant Scillaelepas (Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) including recognition of new species from the north Atlantic, western Indian Ocean and New Zealand. Tethys 9(4): 379–398. abstract only seen Reference page.