Microeuraphia aestuarii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chthamaloidea

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: Chthamaloidea

Familia: Chthamalidae
Subfamilia: Euraphiinae
Genus: Microeuraphia
Species: Microeuraphia aestuarii

Name

• Microeuraphia aestuarii (Stubbings, 1963): 7)
  • Original genus: Chthamalus
  • Type locality: Congo River estuary
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: In estuaries, usually on mangroves; Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Guinea
  • ZooBank: AD57F538-C279-4F0E-BB82-18E65678F1F6

References

• Stubbings, H.G. 1963: Cirripedia of the tropical south Atlantic coast of Africa. Expedition oceanografic belge dans les Eaux cotieres africaines de L'antlantique sud (1948-1949). Resultats scientifiques 3(10): 1-39. Reference page.  [See p. 7, original description as Chthamalus aestuarii]

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• 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. 41, generic reassignment, as Euraphia aestuarii]
• Poltarukha, O.P. 1997: Composition, phylogeny and position in system of the barnacle subfamily Euraphiinae (Crustacea, Chthamalidae). Zoologicheskiy zhurnal 76(10): 1109–1117. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 1116, generic reassignment, as Microeuraphia aestuarii]
• Poltarukha, O.P. 2006: Identification Atlas of the Superfamily Chthamaloidea Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) in the World Ocean. KMK Scientific Press, Ltd., Moscow. ISBN 5-87317-278-1. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 98] [extensive re-description and discussion]