Stomatolepas transversa

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Platylepadidae
Subfamilia: Stomatolepadinae
Genus: Stomatolepas
Species: Stomatolepas transversa

Name

• Stomatolepas transversa Nilsson-Cantell, 1930: 2
  • Symbiont: epibiont on shell of marine turtles
  • Type host: Chelonia mydas
  • Type locality: Enoe Island, Aroe Archipelago
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: cosmopolitan
  • ZooBank: 556797E9-4724-48F7-80E9-AE760F7376EB

References

• Nilsson-Cantell, C.A. 1930: Diagnoses of some new cirripedes from the Netherlands Indies collected by the Expedition of His Royal Highness The Prince Leopold of Belgium in 1929. Bulletin du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique 6(4): 1–2. PDF Reference page.  [see p. 2, original description]

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• 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.  [See p. 203, discussion, symbiont details]
• 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. 63, mention]