Alepas pacifica

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Lepadiformes
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: Thoracica Ordo: Lepadiformes

Alepas pacifica Pilsbry, 1907: 105

Symbiont: Commensal epibiont on various medusae
Type locality: Sea north of San Francisco, California
Types: USNM 28797
Distribution: Tropical Indo-west Pacific: Indian Ocean; Australia; Malaysia; China; Pacific Ocean from

Japan and California to Tasmania; South Atlantic

Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: The barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the U.S. National Museum. Bulletin -- United States National Museum 60: 1–122. BHL Reference page. [See p. 105, original description]

Annandale, T.N. 1914. New and interesting pedunculate Cirripedes from the Indian Seas. Records of the Indian Museum, 10(1): 273–80. BHL Reference page.
Jones, D.S., Hewitt, M.A. & Sampey, A. 2000. A checklist of the Cirripedia of the South China Sea. In The Biodiversity of South China Sea. Raffles bulletin of zoology, supplement (8): 233–307. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [See p. 247]
Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [See p. 246, synonymy, distribution]
Zevina, G.B. 1982: Barnacles of the suborder Lepadomorpha (Cirripedia, Thoracica) of the world oceans. II: Guides to the Fauna of the USSR, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 133: 1-223. ‘‘Nauka’’, Leningrad. (in Russian). Reference page.