Conopea

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 Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: Conopea
Species (27+4†): C. acuta – C. basicuneata – C. calceola – C. cornuta – C. cymbiformis – C. exothobasis – C. fidelis – C. fragilis – C. galeata – C. granulata – C. investita – C. margaretae – C. merrilli – C. minyrostrum – C. mjobergi – C. proripiens – C. pygmaea – C. sabangensis – C. saotomensis – C. scandens – C. sinensis – C. squamosa – C. titani – C. willhearsti – †C. bacata – †C. darraghi – †C. inclusa – †C. moronii

[Source: WoRMS]

Name

Conopea Say, 1822: 323

• Original status: valid genus

• Type species: Lepas galeata Linnaeus, 1771, subsequent designation by Pilsbry, 1916

Synonyms

• Conoplea Gray, 1825: 98 (attributed to Say, 1822; is misspelling)

• Balaninus Costa, 1839: 181

• Balanus, Section B Darwin, 1854: 216 (rejected name Conopea)

• Paractinobalanus Carriol, 2008: 41 (synonymised in Carriol & Schneider, 2016: 46)
  • ZooBank: 05A73CFB-1E51-45A7-8592-76BC1601B7A2

• Patello-Balanus Hoek, 1913: 160
  • Original status: named as section of Balanus
  • ZooBank: F47D82CA-C0F3-4D99-96B1-EC0FDB129F38

References

• Carriol, R-P. & Schneider, S. 2016. New species of cirripedes (Calanticidae, Scalpellidae and Archaeobalanidae) from the mid Burdigalian (Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 102(1): 41–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.002 Full article (PDF).Reference page. 
• Carrison-Stone, D., Van Syoc, R., Williams, G. & Simison, W.B. 2013. Two new species of the gorgonian inhabiting barnacle, Conopea (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica), from the Gulf of Guinea. ZooKeys 270: 1–20. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.270.3736 Reference page. 
• Kolbasov, G.A., Chan, B.K-K., Molodtsova, T. & Achituv, Y. 2016. Revision of the coral-inhabiting genus Conopea (Cirripedia: Archaeobalanidae) with description of two new species of the genera Conopea and Acasta. Zootaxa 4178(2): 182–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.2. 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. 54]
• 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. 234]
• Say, T. 1822. An account of some marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2(2): 221–248, 302–325. Reference page.  [See p. 323]
• Van Syoc, R.J., Carrison-Stone, D., Madrona, L., & Williams, G.C. 2014. Barnacle symbionts of gorgonian sea fans: Description of Seven New Species (Archaeobalanidae:Cirripedia) from the Philippines, Including a Key to Western Pacific Species of Conopea, p. 171–211. In: Williams, Gary C., & Terrence M. Gosliner, eds. 2014. The Coral Triangle: The 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, 94118, USA. ISBN 0940228750Reference page. 

Links

• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Conopea in the World Register of Marine Species
• ZooBank: 915F6FEF-8A1B-4EA6-9A95-F56CFBB0C742

• BHL bibliography
• Conopea – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Conopea.
• ION