Conopea willhearsti

TaxonavigationEdit

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 Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Symbiont: Obligate commensal on gorgonian family Melithaeidae (Acabaria, Mopsella, Melithaea)
Type locality: Philippines, Batangas Province, Culebra Island. 13.60000°N., 120.94700°E. 6 m
Types: Holotype CASIZ 191932; paratypes CASIZ 104031, 111792, 111822, 185241, 185242, 185882, 185884, 185899, 185900, 187665, 187718, 187720, 187721, 187765, 187766, 187768, 187769, 189827
Distribution: Philippines
ZooBank: 338BA114-5081-4805-ADE8-D0683C0F155B

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]
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, p. 171–211. In: Williams, Gary C., & Terrence M. Gosliner, eds. 2014. The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, 94118, USA. ISBN 0940228750 Reference page. [See p. 173, original description]