Acasta squamosa

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 Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

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

Name

• Acasta squamosa Rosell, 1991: 56
  • Symbiont: obligate commensal on white gorgonian
  • Type locality: MUSORSTOM 3 station 117; 12°31.2'N - 120°39.3'E, Mindoro Strait, 92-97 m, on white gorgonian
  • Types: MNHN-Ci 2108; paratypes MNHN-Ci 2109, UPIBM Crust. Coll. No. 374
  • Distribution: Philippines
  • ZooBank: B9DF95BF-7E13-44F9-82EA-C0E982B8D45D

References

• Rosell, N.C. 1991: Crustacea Cirripedia Thoracica: MUSORSTOM 3 Philippine collection. In: Crosnier, A. (ed.), Resultats des campagnes MUSORSTOM. Volume 9. Memoire du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle (A) 152: 9-61. ISBN 2-85653-191-1 Full volume (PDF)Reference page.  [See p. 56, original description, as Conopea squamosa]

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• Carriol, R-P. & Schneider, S. 2016. New species of cirripedes (Calanticidae, Scalpellidae and Archaeobalanidae) from the mid Burdigalian (Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 102(1): 41–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.002 Full article (PDF).Reference page.  [See Table 2, distribution]
• Kolbasov, G.A., Chan, B.K-K., Molodtsova, T. & Achituv, Y. 2016. Revision of the coral-inhabiting genus Conopea (Cirripedia: Archaeobalanidae) with description of two new species of the genera Conopea and Acasta. Zootaxa 4178(2): 182–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.2. Reference page.  [See p. 196, generic reassignment, as Acasta squamosa]
• Van Syoc, R.J., Carrison-Stone, D., Madrona, L., & Williams, G.C. 2014. Barnacle symbionts of gorgonian sea fans: Description of Seven New Species (Archaeobalanidae:Cirripedia) from the Philippines, Including a Key to Western Pacific Species of Conopea. Pp. 171–211 In Williams, G.C. & Gosliner, T.M., (eds.) 2014. The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, 94118, USA, 592 p. ISBN 0940228750. BHL Reference page.  Reference page.  [See Table 8, host date]