Microeuraphia rhizophorae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chthamaloidea

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: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Chthamaloidea

Familia: Chthamalidae
Subfamilia: Euraphiinae
Genus: Microeuraphia
Species: Microeuraphia rhizophorae

Name

• Microeuraphia rhizophorae (De Oliviera, 1940): 379
  • Original genus: Chthamalus
  • Type locality: Sapucaia Island, bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Rhizophora roots
  • Typus: Oswaldo Cruz Institute
  • Distribution: Littoral, Antilles Islands, Bahamas, Atlantic coast from Panama to Parana, Brazil
  • ZooBank: 69F904B5-1458-4144-BEBB-3587B0D15E85

References

• de Oliveira, L.P.H. 1940. Sobre uma nova especie de crustaceo Chthamalus rhizophorae n. sp. (Chthamalidae: Cirripedia). Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 35(2): 379–380. [in Portuguese] pdf. Reference page.  [See p. 379, original description as Chthamalus rhizophorae]

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• Newman, W.A.; Ross, E. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 41, as Euraphia rhizophorae, generic re-assignment]
• Poltarukha, O.P. 1997: Composition, phylogeny and position in system of the barnacle subfamily Euraphiinae (Crustacea, Chthamalidae). Zoologicheskiy zhurnal 76(10): 1109–1117. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 1116, as Microeuraphia rhizophorae, generic re-assignment]]
• Poltarukha, O.P. 2006: Identification Atlas of the Superfamily Chthamaloidea Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) in the World Ocean. KMK Scientific Press, Ltd., Moscow. ISBN 5-87317-278-1. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 111, post 1976 synonymy, discussion]