Acasta armata

Acasta armata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Acastinae
Genus: Acasta
Species: Acasta armata

Name

Acasta armata Gravier, 1921: 353

• Symbiont: Commensal in sponges of family Haliclonidae
• Type locality: French Coast of Somalia (Djibouti)
• Types: not given
• Distribution: Known only from type area
• ZooBank: 83B96E7F-4274-4B1E-BF70-A67D2F2E3D44

References

• Gravier, C. 1921. Sur deux espèces de Cirripèdes du genre Acasta Leach vivant à la côte française des Somalis. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (A) 27(1): 353–357. BHL (In French)Reference page.  [See p. 353]

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• Kolbasov, G.A. 1993. Revision of the genus Acasta Leach (Cirripedia: Balanoidea). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 109(4): 395–427. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00307.x Reference page.  [See p. 411]
• Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 53]