Platylepas krugeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea

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 Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Familia: Platylepadidae
Subfamilia: Platylepadinae
Genus: Platylepas
Species: Platylepas krugeri

Name

• Platylepas krugeri Pilsbry, 1916: 285, new replacement name required by generic re-assignment
  • Original genus: Cryptolepas
  • Symbiont: Commensal epibiont on sea snakes
  • Type locality: Bangkok, on sea snake Distira
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: Thailand, Baluchistan
  • ZooBank: 97742318-4552-40AD-B6C5-5B8C878D76A7

Synonyms

• Cryptolepas ophiophilus Kruger, 1912: 12
  • Became secondary homonym upon re-assignment to Platylepas
  • ZooBank: 30880709-9C90-4D87-801C-A9BCC0D2B750

References

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916. The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 285, as Platylepas krugeri, new replacement name required by generic re-assignment]

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• Krüger, P. 1912: Uber ostrasiatische Rhizocephalen. Anhang: Uber eninige intersante Vertreter der Cirripedia thoracica. Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschafte, supplement 8: 1–16. pdf Reference page.  [See p. 12, original description as Cryptolepas ophiophilus, secondary homonym upon re-assignment to Platylepas]
• 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. 44, as Platylepas krugeri]
• Ross, A. 1963. A new Pleistocene Platylepas from Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Science 26(2): 150–158. BHLReference page.  [See p. 153, summary of described species]
• Ross, A. & Frick, M.G. 2011. Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha). Zootaxa 3106: 60–66. Preview Reference page.  [See p. 62]