Skilled lock Jonny Grey is lacking from Scotland’s World Cup coaching squad after dislocating his knee.
The 29-year-old, capped 77 instances, suffered the damage throughout Exeter’s Champions Cup semi-final defeat by La Rochelle on 30 April.
Winger Darcy Graham, back-row Rory Darge and hooker Stuart McInally return after lacking the Six Nations.
Second row Cameron Henderson and centre Stafford McDowall are the one uncapped gamers within the 41-man group.
Head coach Gregor Townsend, who has signed a new contract operating to April 2026, should trim the squad to 33 for the match in France this autumn.
Scotland are in World Cup Pool B, together with defending champions South Africa and Six Nations winners Eire.
Tonga and Romania make up the group, with matches performed between 10 September and seven October.
Scotland will play warm-up video games towards Italy, France and Georgia in Edinburgh over the summer time and can meet France once more away from residence.
“The cohesion of the Six Nations actually helped us enhance as a squad,” stated Townsend. “That is going to be actually vital and thrilling over the following few months as we get to work with the gamers for 3 – 4 months, which solely occurs as soon as each 4 years.
“We might simply have picked an even bigger squad. That might have been the simple factor to do however we really feel the proper factor is to maintain it as tight as doable to construct that cohesion.”
Hooker Fraser Brown, who made 4 appearances as a alternative on this yr’s Six Nations, is omitted, together with former England winger Ruaridh McConnochie, who was within the Six Nations squad however didn’t characteristic.
Star full-back Stuart Hogg has introduced that he’ll retire after the World Cup.
Scotland didn’t progress from the group stage 4 years in the past, following defeats to Eire and hosts Japan.
Scotland World Cup coaching squad
Forwards: Ewan Ashman, Jamie Bhatti, Dave Cherry, Andy Christie, Luke Crosbie, Scott Cummings, Rory Darge, Jack Dempsey, Matt Fagerson, Zander Fagerson, Grant Gilchrist, Richie Grey, Cameron Henderson, Stuart McInally, WP Nel, Jamie Ritchie (capt), Pierre Schoeman, Javan Sebastian, Sam Skinner, Rory Sutherland, George Turner, Murphy Walker, Hamish Watson.
Backs: Jamie Dobie, Darcy Graham, Chris Harris, Adam Hastings, Ben Healy, Stuart Hogg, George Horne, Huw Jones, Blair Kinghorn, Stafford McDowall, Ali Worth, Cameron Redpath, Finn Russell, Ollie Smith, Kyle Steyn, Sione Tuipulotu, Duhan van der Merwe, Ben White.