Platylepas coriacea

Familia: Platylepadidae
Subfamilia: Platylepadinae
Genus: Platylepas
Species: Platylepas coriacea

Platylepas coriacea

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea

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 Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Name

• Platylepas coriacea Monroe & Limpus, 1979: 208
  • Symbiont: commensal epibiont on marine turtles
  • Type locality: Wreck Rock, near Bundeberg, southeast Queensland, Australia, on Dermochelys coriacea (type host)
  • Typus: holotype QM W7247; paratypes QM W4638, 4640, 4872
  • Distribution: Australia, on Dermochelys coriacea
  • ZooBank: 2CB8B600-FC3D-485E-BFEF-A53794D46792

References

Primary references

• Monroe, R. & Limpus, C.J. 1979: Barnacles on turtles in Queensland waters with descriptions of three new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 19(3): 197–223. Abstract BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ross, A. & Frick, M.G. 2011. Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha). Zootaxa 3106: 60–66. Preview Reference page.  [see p. 62]