Megatrema madreporarum

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: Megatrema madreporarum

Name

Megatrema madreporarum (Bosc, 1801: 66)

• Original genus: Balanus
• Original status: valid species
• Symbiont on scleractinian Agaricia agaricites
• Type locality: Caribbean
• Types:
• ZooBank: 819B251F-B5D2-498A-BD08-FB96CABBAFAA

Synonymy

• Creusia boscii deBlainville, 1824: 378
• Creusia decorata Chenu, 1843 (no pagination)
• Pyrgoma stokesii Gray, 1825: 103

References

• Bosc, C. 1801: Observation et description d'une espece de Balanite qui se fixe dans les madrepores. Bulletin des sciences, par le Societe Philomatique de Paris, 3: 66. Reference page.  [See p. 66, as Balanus madreporarum]
• 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. 361, as Pyrgoma stokesii]
• Holthuis, I.B. 1982: The nomenclature of some coral-inhabiting barnacles of the family Pyrgomatidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha). Crustaceana 43(3): 316–320. JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 319] (discusses Bosc, and actual date of his publication as 1801, not 1812)
• 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. 59, as Boscia madreporarae (lapsus calami)]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916: The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 262, as Pyrgoma stokesii]
• Ross, A. & Newman, W.A. 1973. Revision of coral-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia: Balanidae). Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 17: 137-174. BHLReference page.  [See p. 164, as Boscia madreporarum]
• 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]
• Young, P. S. 1988: Recent cnidarian-associated barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) from the Brazilian coast. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 5(3): 353-369. DOI: 10.1590/S0101-81751988000300001 Reference page.  [See p. 360, for full species synonymy; specimens cited here only are Megatrema youngi]