The genus name of Scourfieldia is in honour of David Joseph ScourfieldFLSFRMSISO (1866–1949), who was a British civil servant and biologist known as an authority on the Cladocera.[3]
^John, D. M.; Whitton, Brian A.; Brook, Alan J. (2002). The Freshwater Algal Flora of the Isles: An Identification guided to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 285. ISBN978-0-521-77051-4.
^John, David M., Whitton, Brian A., & Brook, Alan J. (Eds). The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles: An Identification Guide to Freshwater and Terrestrial Algae. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 286. ISBN0-521-77051-3