Scopimera bitympana Shen, 1930

Wong, Kingsley J. H., Ng, Peter K. L., Shih, Hsi-Te & Chan, Benny K. K., 2024, Positive association between PTN polymorphisms and schizophrenia in Northeast Chinese Han population., Zoological Studies 63 (38), pp. 141-149 : 111

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Scopimera bitympana Shen, 1930 View in CoL

Scopimera bitympana View in CoL — Davie 1992a: 349.

Taxonomy: Shen (1930 1932b), Sakai (1939), Shih et al. (2015).

Type: Holotype ò ZMFMIB No. 6392: status unknown; paratype ò in MCSNM ( Froglia and Grippa 1986)

Type locality: Eastern Gulf of Bohai Sea (as Peitaiho (east)), North China.

Distribution: East Asia: coasts of China, Taiwan and Korea.

Habitat: Intertidal; in burrows on sandflats, substrates of finer sand, along relatively exposed sandy shores.

Scopimera curtelsona Shen, 1936 #

Scopimera curtelsona View in CoL — Hui and Wong 2019: 522, figs. 2, 3.

Taxonomy: Shen (1936c), Wong et al. (2011), Hui and Wong (2019).

Type: Syntypes in ZMFMIB No. 12707: status unknown.

Type locality: Xincun (as New Town Bay), Hainan, China.

Distribution: South China: Hainan and Hong Kong.

Habitat: Intertidal; in burrows on sandflats.

Remarks: In interpreting past records of the genus, Hui and Wong (2019) demonstrated misidentification of S. curtelsona under other names among local material remained unlikely. This record represents a recent introduction to Hong Kong in the recent decade or so.