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Elaterium

Description

Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber (but not to be confused with Cyclanthera brachystachya). It gets its unusual name from the fact that, when ripe, it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds, which can be seen with the naked eye. It is thus considered to have rapid plant movement.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)3261303https://www.gbif.org/species/3261303
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)256706https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=256706
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Coleoptera : Elateridae : Elaterium
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
-CercofilataKukalová-Peck 1987
classInsectaLinnaeus 1758
-Dicondylia
-ParanotaliaSroka et al. 2014
subclassPterygotaBrauer 1885
-NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
-Holometabola
-Aparaglossata
-ColeopteridaKukalová-Peck and Lawrence 2004
orderColeopteraLinnaeus 1758
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroideaLeach 1815
familyElateridaeLeach 1815
genusElateriumWestwood 1854
Scientific NameElaterium Westwood, 1854
Name Published InQuart. J. Geol. Soc. London, 10, 387
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Elateriumgenusbelongs to Elateridaestated with evidenceHandlirsch, 1906
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)3
First Recorded Appearance228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Insecta)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Arthropoda)
Taphonomychitin (based on Insecta)
Primary Reference (PBDB)J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaterium

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Elaterium bipunctatum
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Elaterium pronaeus
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1145 Ma
Late Jurassic
145 Ma
Late Jurassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1854Elaterium Westwood
1906Elaterium Handlirsch p. 553

References

Westwood J. O. Contributions to fossil entomology, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10, 378-396
Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640
Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London, 10, 387 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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