original description
Lang, K. (1949). Echinoderida. <em>Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903 under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld.</em> 4 (2): 1-22. [details] Available for editors
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Neuhaus, B. (2013). 5. Kinorhyncha (= Echinodera). In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera, Volume 1: Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin,. pp. 181-348. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110272536.181 [details] Available for editors
new combination reference
Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). <em>Cladistics.</em> 32(5): 479-505., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12143 [details]
Syntype Private uncatalogued (Swedish Museum of Natural History?), geounit South Georgian and the South Sandwich Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Syntype uncatalogued (Swedish Museum of Natural History?), geounit South Georgian and the South Sandwich Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology [The species name was derived from Latin sculptus, carved, and referred to the sculptured tergosternal joints.] [details]