Teloscalpellum Zevina, 1978

Shalaeva, Kate & Boxshall, Geoff, 2014, An illustrated catalogue of the scalpellid barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) collected during the HMS “ Challenger ” expedition and deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 3804 (1), pp. 1-63 : 36-37

Genus Teloscalpellum Zevina, 1978

Arcoscalpellum Hoek, 1907: 85 (part); Pilsbry, 1907a: 47; Newman & Ross, 1971: 42 (part).

Teloscalpellum Zevina, 1978b: 1350 .

Diagnosis. Capitulum with 13 or 14 plates; inframedian latus triangular or rod-shaped, umbo apical or sub-apical; carinal latus umbo at basi-carinal angle, not or only slightly extending beyond carinal margin; caudal appendage typically multi-segmented (up to nine segments), sometimes one segment or none.

Type species. Scalpellum spicatum Zevina, 1975 .

Composition. 18 species.

Distribution. Worldwide, except Arctic; known depth range 90 to 4758 m.

Remarks. Zevina (1978b) pointed out that only the basicarinal umbo of the carinal latus distinguishes this genus from Arcoscalpellum , Trianguloscalpellum Zevina, 1978 , Anguloscalpellum and Diceroscalpellum Zevina, 1978 . Young (1999a) overlooked this genus in his preliminary re-assessment of the Scalpellidae , but did include it in his later assessment ( Young, 2007). At present, the phylogenetic position of Teloscalpellum among other genera of the subfamily Arcoscalpellinae has yet to be established.