Verruca

Verruca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Verrucomorpha

Familia: Verrucidae
Genus: Verruca
Species (11 + 16†): †V. alabamensis – V. cookei – †V. digitali – †V. gailgoedertae – V. gibbosa – †V. hermi – V. jago – †V. jagti – V. laevigata – V. minuta – V. mitra – †V. punica – †V. rocana – †V. sauria – V. scrippsae – V. sewelli – †V. sorrellae – V. spengleri – †V. steenstrupi – V. stroemia – †V. tasmanica – †V. veneta – V. vertica – †V. vietus – V. withersi

[Source: WoRMS]

• In synonymy:

†V. alaskana – †V. koikei –

Name

• Verruca Schumacher, 1817: [1]91
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Geological range: Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) to Recent, cosmopolitan
  • Type species: Lepas stroemia Muller, 1776: 251
  • ZooBank: 0BB198C4-67D8-46FA-A45B-2A2465803A68

Synonymy

• Clysia Leach, 1817: t69
  • Synonymized in Darwin, 1854: 496
  • ZooBank: A75DD84A-AA2D-4015-9B3F-EA1A3A054FA8
• Ochthosia Ranzani, 1817: 275
  • Type species:: Lepas stroemia Muller, 1776, by subsequent monotypy (Ranzani, 1818)
  • Synonymized in Darwin, 1854: 497
  • ZooBank: BF2A874E-4DF4-410B-B918-CFC2E8114D0C

References

Primary references

• Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d’un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés: avec XXII planches. 287 pp. 22 pls. De l’Imprimerie de Mr. le directeur Schultz, à Copenhague. BHL Reference page. 
• Ranzani, A.C. 1817: Osservazioni su i Balanidi Parte II. Opuscoli Scientifici, Bologna 1: 269-276. [In Italian] Google Books Reference page. 

Additional references

• Buckeridge, J.S. 2011: Taphonomy and systematics of a new Late Cretaceous verrucid barnacle (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from Canterbury, New Zealand. Palaeontology, 54 (2): 365–372. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00998.x
• Carriol, R-P & Schneider, S. 2013: New species of fossil sessile barnacles (Verrucidae, Tetraclitidae) from the Pliocene of central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 270(3): 233–244. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0365 Reference page. 
• 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. 45]
• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 496, new species, descriptions]
• Gale, A.S. & Sadorf, E. 2025. Pliocene distribution of the cirripede Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776) and revised definitions of the verrucid genera Verruca, Metaverruca and Priscoverruca (Thoracica, Crustacea). Acta Geologica Polonica 75(1): e39. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2024.152661 Reference page.  [See p. 4, adjust definition, species list]
• Gale, A.S. & Vidovic, S.U. 2023. The origins of major sessile cirripede groups; a revision of Cretaceous Balanomorpha and Verrucomorpha. Journal of Systematic Paleontology 21(1)ː 2258370. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2258370 Reference page.  [See p. 38, discussion of generic definitions]
• Leach, W.E. 1817. Distribution systematique de la class Cirripedes. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 85: 67–69. Reference page.  [See p. 69, as Clysia, junior synonym]
• Ranzani, A.C. 1817: Osservazioni su i Balanidi Parte II. Opuscoli Scientifici, Bologna 1: 269-276. [In Italian] Google Books Reference page.  [See p. 275, as Ochthosia, junior synonym]
• Wood, W. 1815. General conchology: or a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system, and illustrated with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. John Booth, London, 246 pp. BHL Reference page.  57