Megatrema (Sowerby)

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 Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Pyrgomatidae
Subfamilia: Megatrematinae
Tribus: Megatrematini
Genus: Megatrema
Species (2): M. madreporarum – M. youngi

Name

Megatrema Sowerby, 1823: (no pagination)

• Gender: [neuter]
• Original status: valid genus
• Type species: Megatrema stokesii Gray, 1825: 103 (Balanus madreporarum Bosc, 1801: 66)
  • Fixation: subsequent monotypy by Gray, 1825: 103
• ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:797B3D86-F995-44CC-B792-34A338D3E71F

Synonymy

• Boscia Ferussac, 1822: 145 (pre-occupied)

References

• Galkin, S.V. 1986: System of coral-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha). Zoologicheskiy zhurnal, 65(9): 1285–1295. (In Russian) Reference page.  [See p. 1294]
• Ross, A. & Pitombo, F.B. 2002: Notes on the coral-inhabiting Megatrematinae and the description of a new tribe, new genus and three new species (Cirripedia: Sessilia: Pyrgomatidae). Sessile organisms 19(2): 57-68. DOI: 10.4282/sosj.19.57 Reference page.  [See p. 63]
• Sowerby, G.B. 1823. The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in Conchology and Geology, with 264 original plates by James Sowerby, continued by J. de C. Sowerby, (18): 2 vol., (not paginated in original, added later) Reference page.