Paralepas minuta

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lepadiformes
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 Ordo: Lepadiformes

Subordo: Heteralepadomorpha
Familia: Heteralepadidae
Genus: Paralepas
Species: Paralepas minuta

Name

Paralepas minuta (Philippi, 1836): 254

Original genus: Alepas
Symbiont: Commensal epibiont on echinoid spines (Cidarida)
Type locality:
Types:
Distribution: Mediterranean; W Africa; Indo-west Pacific: Indian Ocean; Australia; Java Sea; Malay Arch.; Taiwan; Japan; Philippines; New Zealand
ZooBank: 2FA9D2C6-6CE8-4050-AD9F-7FD5DAFDA1B8

Synonyms

Paralepas minuta nipponica Utinomi, 1970: 342, junior synonym

References

Philippi, R.A. 1836. Appendix II. Cirripedia. Pp 246–254 article BHL In Philippi Enumeratio Mulluscorum Sicilaecum viventicum in tellure tertiaria fossilum quae in itinere suo observavit. Berolini, 267 p. BHL Reference page. [See p. 254, original description, as Alepas minuta]

Biccard, A. & Griffiths, C.L. 2016. Additions to the barnacle (Crustacea: Cirripedia) fauna of South Africa. African Zoology 51(2): 99–116. DOI: 10.1080/15627020.2016.1196610 Reference page. [See p. 100, synonymy, South African distribution]
Broch, H. 1927. Studies on Moroccan cirripeds (Atlantic Coast). Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles et physiques du Maroc 7: 11–38. Biblioteca Digital Reference page. [See p. 18, as Heteralepas minuta]
Chan, B. K-K. 2009: Shallow water and deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Thoracica) collected during the Philippine PANGLAO 2005 Expedition, with descriptions of two new species. Raffles bulletin of zoology, Suppl. 20: 47–82. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [See p. 61, range extension, discussion; erroneously cites Darwin, 1851 as original description]
Darwin, C. 1852. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 1 The Lepadidae or Pedunculated Cirrepedes. Ray Society. BHL Reference page. [See p. 160, as Alepas minuta, extensive description]
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. 244, synonymy and distribution]
Newman, W.A. 1960. Five pedunculate Cirripeds From the Western Pacific, Including Two New Forms. Crustaceana, 1(2): 100–116. JSTOR Reference page. [See p. 109, as Paralepas minuta, generic re-assignment]
Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: The barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the U.S. National Museum. Bulletin -- United States National Museum 60: 1–122. BHL Reference page. [See p. 101, as Heteralepas (Paralepas) minuta, generic reassignment]
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. 651-652, fig. 2]
Utinomi, H. 1970: New and rare commensal pedunculate cirripeds from Amakusa Islands, Western Kyusyu, Japan. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 18(3): 157-167. pdf Reference page. [See p. 342, as Paralepas minuta nipponica]

Links

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

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