Fallaxlepas nervosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanomorpha
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

Stem group Balanomorpha
Familia: Brachylepadidae
Genus: †Fallaxlepas
Species: Fallaxlepas nervosa

Name

• Fallaxlepas nervosa (Alekseev, 2009): 34
  • Original genus: Brachylepas
  • Geological age: Cretaceous, upper Lower Maastrichtian
  • Type locality: Southwest Crimea, Bakhchisray area, Beshkosh Mountain, southwest slope
  • Typus: Holotype right tergum MGU 270/21
  • Distribution: Crimea, Ukraine, Urals, possibly into Western Europe, misidentified as Fallaxlepas fallax
  • ZooBank: 8CD79DEC-4442-4224-ABD8-557D3A30EB28

References

• Alekseev, A.S. 2009. Usonogie raki (Cirripedia, Thoracica) verkhnego mela Mangyshlaka. Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Geological series, 84(2): 23–38. (in Russian) Reference page.  [See p. 34, original description as Brachylepas nervosa]

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• Gale, A.S. 2020. New thoracican cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Cretaceous of Europe and North Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 295(3): 243–282. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2020/0886 Reference page.  [See p. 277, generic re-assignment as Fallaxlepas nervosa]
• Kočí, T., Kočová Veselská, M. & Jagt, J.W.M. 2014. Barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin described by Fritsch and Kafka (1887), with the exclusion of the family Stramentidae. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis, 70(3–4): 223–234. DOI: 10.14446/AMNP.2014.223 PDF Reference page.  [See p. 227, discssion and comparison with Brachylepas fallax]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Fallaxlepas nervosa – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Fallaxlepas nervosa.
• ION
• Fallaxlepas nervosa in the World Register of Marine Species