Conopea cymbiformis

Conopea cymbiformis

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: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: Conopea
Species: Conopea cymbiformis

Name

• Conopea cymbiformis (Darwin, 1854): 221
  • Original genus: Balanus
  • Symbiont: Commensal on gorgonians Scirpearella and Verrucella orientalis
  • Type locality: near Madras, India
  • Types: BMNH
  • Distribution: Indo-west Pacific: Gulf of Aden; India; Indonesia; Fiji; China, Philippines; Japan, 0-453 m
  • ZooBank: 0062870E-3840-4FCE-AA43-CA96835DE62D

Synonyms

• Balanus proripiens Hoek, 1913ː 228
  • Synonymized in Broch, 1922ː 326
  • Type localityː Siboga Station 204, 4°20'S, 122°58'E, 75-94 m
  • Typusː
• Pyrgoma jedani Hoek, 1913: 262
  • Synonymized in Utinomi, 1962: 75
  • Type localityː Jedan Station, on coral
  • Typusː
  • ZooBank: 99F4FCDD-69C5-4CC2-B7CB-E18D08E55D13

References

• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 221, as Balanus cymbiformis]

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• Broch, H. 1922: Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-6. X. Studies on Pacific cirripeds. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, 73: 215–358. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 326, as Balanus proripiens]
• Hoek, P.P.C. 1913: The Cirripedia of the Siboga Expedition. B. Siboga Expeditie Monogr. XXXIb, i-xxv: 129–275. BHLReference page.  [See p. 262, as Pyrgoma jedani, junior synonym]
• 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. 273, synonymy and distribution]
• 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. 55]
• Pitriana, P., Jones, D.S., Corbari, L., von Rintelen, K. 2020. New insights gained from museum collections: Deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collected during the Karubar expedition in 1991. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96(2): 649-698. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.55733 Reference page.  [See p. 683-684, fig. 33]

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