Thylacoplethus edwardsi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhizocephala
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: Rhizocephala

Familia: Thompsoniidae
Genusː Thylacoplethus
Speciesː Thylacoplethus edwardsi

Name

• Thylacoplethus edwardsi Coutière, 1902ː 625
  • Symbiontː Parasitic on Alpheidae
  • Type localityː Torres Strait, northern Great Barrier Reef; type host Alpheus edwardsii
  • Typusː Neotype NSMT-Cr 12134; neotype host Alpheus gracilis
  • Distributionː Indo-Pacific from Mozambique through Torres Strait, Queensland, to northern Taiwan and Okinawa
  • ZooBank: 87C0ABC9-E3CD-49E5-A740-3FCC51403FA7

Synonymy

• Thylacoplethus haddoni Coutière, 1902ː 625
  • Synonymized in Høeg & Lützen, 1993ː 374
  • Regarded as juvenile T. edwardsi
  • Type localityː Torres Strait, northern Great Barrier Reef
  • ZooBank: 25F08025-0D82-4020-AD59-B11E2634CCC0

References

• Coutière, H. 1902. Sur un nouveau type de Rhizocephale gregaires parasite des Alpheidae (Deuxieme note). Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances et mémoires de la Société de biologie 54ː 625–626. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 625, original description]

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• Høeg, J.T. & Lützen, J. 1993. Comparative morphology and phylogeny of the family Thompsoniidae (Cirripedia, Rhizocephala, Akentrogonida), with descriptions of three new genera and seven new species. Zoologica Scripta 22(4): 363-386. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1993.tb00365.x Reference page.  [See p. 374, discussion, synonymy, hosts, distribution]
• Huang, J.F. & Lützen, J. 1998. Rhizocephalans (Crustacea: Cirripedia) from Taiwan. Journal of Natural History 32(9)ː 1319–1337. DOI: 10.1080/00222939800770661 Reference page.  [See p. 1320, discussion]
• Lützen, J. & Nagasawa, K. 1998. Two akentrogonid rhizocephalans (Crustacea, Cirripedia) parasitic on shrimps, Thylacoplethus edwardsi Coutière from Japan and T. minutus sp. nov. from Australia. Bulletin of the National Science Museum of Tokyo, Series A 24(3): 177-184. Reference page.  [See p. 178, neotype; p. 182, discussion]
• Potts, F.A. 1915. On the rhizocephalan genus Thompsonia and its relation to the evolution of the group. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 212(1)ː 1–32. BHL Reference page.  [See for synonymy, as Thompsonia edwardsi, generic re-assignment by infeence]