Megalasma striatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lepadoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Thecostraca
Subclassis: Cirripedia
Infraclassis: Thoracica
Superordine: Thoracicalcarea
Ordine: Scalpellomorpha
Superfamily: Lepadoidea

Familia: Poecilasmatidae
Genus: Megalasma
Species:

Name

  • Megalasma striatum Hoek, 1883: 51
    • Symbiont: epibiont on echinoid spines; Echinus type host
    • Geological age: lower Pleistocene to Recent
    • Type locality: Challenger station 204, 12°43'N, 122°10'E, 100-115 fathoms
    • Typus:
    • Distribution: Indo-West Pacific to east Africa, China Sea, Australia, New Zealand, southwest Pacific
    • ZooBank: 241A18F2-2B2C-4F36-B05A-39BC55B4938A

Synonyms

References

  • Hoek, P.P.C. 1883. Report on the Cirripedia collected by Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology. 8(25): 1–169. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 51, original description]

  • Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene -- early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean. Part 2. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 189–207. Paywall Reference page.  [See p. 192, fossil occurrence]
  • 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. 247, distribution, synonyms]
  • Zevina, G.B. 1982: Barnacles of the suborder Lepadomorpha (Cirripedia, Thoracica) of the world oceans. II: Guides to the Fauna of the USSR, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 133: 1-223. ‘‘Nauka’’, Leningrad. (in Russian). Reference page.  [See p. 80, as
  • Zullo, V.A. & Newman, W.A. 1964. Thoracic Cirripedia from a southeast Pacific guyot. Pacific Science 18(4): 355–372. hdl: 10125/7148 Open access. Reference page.  [See p. 355, as Megalasma (Megalasma) elegans]