Pyrgopsella annandalei

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 Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Pyrgopsella annandalei (Gruvel, 1907: 8)

Original genus: Pyrgopsis
Symbiont: Commensal in corals, host not given in Gruvel, but later found only on Symphillia radians
Type locality: Andaman Islands, "off Blair Reef" 11° 49' 30" N, 92° 55' 55" E
Types: Indian Museum Collections, Calcutta (lost); syntype NHM 1907.7.23.16
Distribution: Andaman Islands and Indonesia
ZooBank: 6A028020-2398-4462-84F4-33D22C54D7FE (1906)
ZooBank: B93298BA-0193-43D4-B57E-DF392F187DD4

Synonymized in Simon-Blecher & Achituv, 2014, from comparison with newly discovered Gruvel material
Types and locality: Holotype RMNH C. 2602; paratypes RMNH C 2603, C 2604, TAU AR27804, from Bali, Indonesia
ZooBank: 2CAB4A09-7DCF-483F-965F-869A101E7A0A

Achituv, Y. & Simon-Blecher, N. 2006. Pyrgopsella (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) is not a sponge-inhabiting barnacle. Zootaxa 1319: 29–41. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
Gruvel, A. 1906. Sur une forme nouvelle de Cirrhipede opercule (Pyrgopsis Annandalei n. g., n. sp.) Note de M.A. Gruvel, presentee par M. E.-L. Bouvier. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 142: 1558–1559. BHL Reference page. [See p. 1558, as Pyrgopsis annandalei] (Note only, no descriptions)
Gruvel, A. 1907. Cirrhipedes opercules de l'Indian Museum, de Calcutta. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 2(1): 1–10. (French) BHL Reference page. [See p. 8, as Pyrgopsis annandalei] (full description, illustrations, type locality, repository)
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. 58, as Pyrgopsella annandalei]
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. BHL Reference page. [See p. 163, as Pyrgopsella annandalei] (Authorship given as Gruvel, 1907)
Simon-Blecher, N. & Achituv, Y. 2014: The rise and fall of Pyrgopsella youngi – rediscovery of a lost species. Journal of crustacean biology 34(5): 663-670. DOI: 10.1163/1937240X-00002257 Reference page.