Nipponoscaphander japonicus ( Adams, 1862 )

Siegwald, Justine & Malaquias, Manuel António E., 2025, Bringing light into deep-sea biodiversity: a systematic revision and molecular phylogeny of the genus Scaphander Montfort, 1810 (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea), with a focus on the Indo-Pacific, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203, pp. 1-60 : 53

(1) Nipponoscaphander japonicus ( Adams, 1862)

[original designation Scaphander japonicus Adams, 1862 ]

Remarks: The species S. japonicus Adams, 1862 was assigned to the genus Bucconia byKuroda and Habe (1954), who provided illustrations of specimens identified by Adams. These authors later transferred the species to the newly described genus Nipponoscaphander erected based on S. japonicus ( Kuroda et al. 1971) . Later, the species has been ascribed arbitrarily either to Scaphander ( Valdés 2008, Poppe 2010, Hori 2017) or to Nipponoscaphander ( Guangyu 1997, Qi 2004), but recently, Siegwald et al. (2022) confirmed the affiliation of S. japonicus with the genus Nipponoscaphander , based on molecular phylogenetic evidence.