Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Copepoda > Infraclass Neocopepoda > Superorder Podoplea > Order Cyclopoida > Suborder Ergasilida > Family Synapticolidae

Scambicornus Heegaard, 1944

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Scambicornis Heegaard, 1944 orthographic variant
Preherrmannella Sewell, 1949 synonym

Children

Scambicornus petiti (Stock & Kleeton, 1963)
Scambicornus prehensilis (Sars G.O., 1918)

Literature

original description

Heegaard, P.E. (1944). A new copepod (Scambicornus hamatus) parasitic on a Japanese holothurian. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Kobenhavn. 107: 359-366, figs. 1-10. (27-vi-1944).

additional source

Stock, J.H. (1964). On Scambicornus Heegaard, 1944, a senior synonym of Preherrmannella Seymour Sewell, 1949 (Copepoda, Cyclopoida). Beaufortia 10(123):183-192, figs. 1-3. (5-v-1964)

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Citation

Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Scambicornus Heegaard, 1944. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:347972

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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2020-10-02 by T. Chad Walter

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