Capitulum mitella

Familia: Pollicipedidae
Genus: Capitulum
Species:

• Capitulum mitella (Linnaeus, 1758): 668
  • Original genus: Lepas
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: lower Miocene (Burdigalian), Japan to Recent, Warmer parts of Indo-Pacific region, littoral, rocky coasts
  • Type locality:
  • Typus:
  • ZooBank: 097300A5-9F4C-4CE2-8D81-8889A49D5134

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page.  [See p. 668, original description as Lepas mitella]

• Blainville, H.M.D. de 1824. Nematopoda. Dictionaire des sciences naturelles (Mollusques-Morfil), 32: 372–380. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 375, as Polylepas mitella]
• Darwin, C. 1852. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 1 The Lepadidae or Pedunculated Cirrepedes. Ray Society. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 316, as Pollicipes mitella]
• Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of Cirripedes arranged in natural families, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy new series 10: 97–107. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 101, as Capitulum mitella]
• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 256, synonymy and distribution]
• Karasawa, S. 2020. Sphaerillo boninensis Nunomura, 1990 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) is a junior synonym of a pantropical species, Venezillo parvus (Budde-Lund, 1885). ZooKeys, 923: 1–14. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.923.26018 Reference page.  [See p. 30, Japanese fossil occurrences]
• Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2025. Cirripedes from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan, with the description of a new species of Amphibalanus Pitombo from the Iwamura Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 52(1): 55––99. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.52.1_55. Reference page.  [See p. 58, fossil occurrence]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: The barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the U.S. National Museum. Bulletin -- United States National Museum 60: 1–122. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 6, as Mitella mitella]
• Pitriana, P., Valente, L., von Rintelen, T., Jones, D.S., Prabowo, R.E. & von Rintelen, K. 2020. An annotated checklist and integrative biodiversity discovery of barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the Moluccas, East Indonesia. ZooKeys, 945: 17–83. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.945.39044 Reference page. 

• BHL bibliography
• Capitulum mitella – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Capitulum mitella.
• ION
• Capitulum mitella in the World Register of Marine Species
• Capitulum mitella – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).