Poecilasma crassa

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Lepadomorpha
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 Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Lepadomorpha

Poecilasma crassa (Gray, 1848: 44)

Original genus: Anatifa
Symbiont: Epibiotic commensal on Gorgonia (Gray, 1848); on Homola curierii (Darwin, 1852)
Type locality: Madeira
Types: BMNH
Distribution: Madeira, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, in warmer waters
ZooBank: 855BEC79-DD09-4691-93C1-C19C2A9CB1AD

Darwin, C. 1852. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 1 The Lepadidae or Pedunculated Cirrepedes. Ray Society. BHL Reference page. [See p. 107, as Poecilasma crassa, generic reassignment]
Gray, J.E. 1848. Description of a new species of Anatifa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 16: 44. BHL Reference page. [See p. 44, original description, as Anatifa crassa]
Nilsson-Cantell, C.A. 1938: Cirripedes from the Indian Ocean in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 13: 1–81. pdf Reference page. [See p. 9, as Trilasmis crassa]
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. [See p. 96, synonymy]