Smilium Gray, 1825

Young, Paulo 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), pp. 309-345 : 336-337

Genus Smilium Gray, 1825

Smilium longirostrum (Gruvel, 1900) (junior synonym of Smilium acutum [ Hoek, 1883]) ( Fig. 23 )

Scalpellum longirostrum Gruvel, 1900a: 190 ; 1902a: 70, 124, pl. 2, figs 4, 5, pl. 3, figs 17-20; 1902c: 246; 1902d: 523; 1905 57: fig. 61. — Joleaud 1916: 40. — Calman 1918: 102. — Weltner 1922: 70. — Klepal 1987: 304.

Smilium longirostrum – Pilsbry 1908: 107. — Krüger 1911: 15. — Stubbings 1967: 234.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Portugal coast, Talisman, 1883 , drag. 1, 1923 m, holotype by monotypy, without peduncle and appendages, in bad conditions, cl 5.5 mm ( MNHN Ci 399).

REMARKS

I suppose that Smilium acutum ( Hoek, 1883) probably represents a complex of species due to its wide distribution and distinctions between some of its descriptions. But I cannot identify any distinctions between the holotype of S. longirostrum ( Fig. 23 ) and the original description of Hoek for S. acutum . Both species have type localities from the northeastern Atlantic. Therefore, I confirm this synonym previously presented by several authors ( Annandale 1910, 1916; Nilsson-Cantell 1921, 1938; Newman & Ross 1971; Zevina 1981a).

Family SCALPELLIDAE Pilsbry, 1907

Figures

FIG. 23. — Smilium longirostrum (Gruvel, 1900), holotype (MNHN Ci 399), right lateral view. Scale bar: 1 mm.