Cetopirus complanatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea
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: Coronuloidea

Familia: Coronulidae
Subfamilia: Coronulinae
Genus: Cetopirus
Species: Cetopirus complanatus

Name

Cetopirus complanatus Morch, 1853: 67
- Symbiont: Obligate commensal on whale Eubalaena glacialis
- Type locality: North Atlantic Ocean, between Newfoundland and Iceland, on right whale
- Types: Lectotype figured in Chemnitz, 1785, pl. 99, fig. 845, 846; designated by Tarasov & Zevina, 1957: 246
- Distribution: Known from North Atlantic populations of Eubalaena glacialis, possibly extinct; North Pacific reports unconfirmed; known from Southern Hemisphere, on Eubalaena australis
- ZooBank: D109B85A-009A-4CAF-B622-6522599E8047

Synonyms

Lepas baleneris Spengler, 1790
Cetopirus balaeneris Ranzani, 1817 (species name pre-occupied)
Coronula balaeneris Darwin, 1854 (used pre-occupied name)

References

Mørch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso D'Aguirra & Gadea, comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis Caroli Tertii eques. Fasciculus secundus. Acephala. Annulata Cirripedia. Echonodermata. [IV] + 76 pp. BHL [in Latin] Reference page. [See p. 67, as Ceteopirus [sic] complanatus]

Chemnitz, J.H. 1785. Neues systematisches Conchylien Cabinet 8: (i-xviii), 1-372, pls.— Raspe, Nürnberg. Reference page. [See p. 325]
Collareta, A., Bosselaers, M., Holroyd, P.A. & Dineen, A. 2022. A forgotten cirripedological gemː a new species of whale barnacle of the genus Cetopirus from the Pleistocene of the United States West Coast. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1–8, 2022. DOI: 10.1017/S1755691022000214 ResearchGate Reference page.
Collareta, A., Marean, C.W., Jerardino, A. & Bosselaers, M. 2017. Cetopirus complanatus (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) from the late Middle Pleistocene human settlement of Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, South Africa). Zootaxa 4237(2): 393–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.12. Reference page.
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. 415] (as Coronula balaenaris)
Holthuis, L.B., Smeenk, C. & Laarman, F.J. 1998. The find of a whale barnacle, Cetopirus complanatus (Mörch, 1853), in 10th century deposits in the Netherlands. Zoologische verhandelingen 323(27): 349–363. Full article (PDF)Reference page.
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. 45]
Ross, A. & Frick, M.G. 2011. Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha). Zootaxa 3106: 60–66. Preview Reference page. [See p. 64]
Tarasov, N.I.; Zevina, G.B. 1957: Fauna USSR. Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) of seas of USSR. Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk CCCP, (new series) 69: 1-268. Reference page. [See p. 246, lectotype designation]