Thylacoplethus

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
Species (13)ː T. africanus – T. cubensis – T. edwardsi – T. isaevae – T. magellani – T. minutus – T. novaezealandiae – T. orientalis – T. pilodiae – T. porcellanus – T. reinhardi – T. squillae – T. umanguvatus

Name

• Thylacoplethus Coutière, 1902ː BHL
  • Type species:ː Thylacoplethus edwardsi Coutière, 1902, by monotypy
  • ZooBank: 1DA3239A-D20D-4C92-9158-01403F762763

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. BHL, original designation]

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• Chan, B.K-K., Dreyer, N., Gale, A.S., Glenner, H., Ewers-Saucedo, C., Perez-Losada, M., Kolbasov, G.A., Crandall, K.A. & Høeg, J.T. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(3): 789–846. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 Reference page.  [See p. 38]
• Høeg, J.T., Noever, C., Rees, D.J., Crandall, K. & Glenner, H. 2020. A new molecular phylogeny-based taxonomy of parasitic barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190: 632–653. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz140 pdf Reference page.  [See p. 645, 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