Heteralepas microstoma

Heteralepas microstoma

Taxonavigation

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

Subordo: Heteralepadomorpha
Familia: Heteralepadidae
Genus: Heteralepas
Species: Heteralepas microstoma

Name

Heteralepas microstoma (Gruvel, 1901): 259

• Original genus: Alepas
• Type locality: Madeira
• Types: BMNH 1891.7.9.4-8
• Distribution: Azores, Madeira, Meteor Seamount, 269-623 meters
• ZooBank: 260F1A26-A125-4AF0-8978-A80E20E970F1

Synonyms

Heteralepas alboplaculus Zevina & Kolbasov, 2000: 1275

• Junior synonym
• ZooBank: 285F8D2B-AFEB-4EDA-A5D9-7BE4F3592167

Heteralepas meteorensis Carriol, 1998: 506

• Types: Holotype MNHN Ci-2689
• Synonymized by Young, 2001: 711
• ZooBank: AA46BDEE-E676-4CFC-995D-015774651857

References

• Gruvel, M. A. 1901. Diagnoses de quelques especes nouvelles de Cirrhipedes. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (A) 7: 256–263. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 259, original description as Alepas microstoma]

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• Buhl-Mortensen, L. & Newman, W.A., 2004: A new pedunculate barnacle (Cirripedia: Heteralepadidae) from the Northwest Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 117(3): 385–397. BHLReference page.  [See Table 1]
• Carriol, R-P. 1998. A new pedunculate cirripede (Thoracica, Heteralepas) from the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Zoosystema, 20(3): 505–509. Reference page.  [See p. 506]
• Wirtz, P., Araújo, R. & Southward, A.J., 2006. Cirripedia of Madeira. Helgoland marine research, 60(3): 207-212. DOI: 10.1007/s10152-006-0036-5 Reference page. 
• Young, P.S. 2001: Deep-sea Cirripedia Thoracica (Crustacea) from the northeastern Atlantic collected by French expeditions. Zoosystema 23(4): 707-758. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 711, synonymy]
• Zevina, G.B. & Kolbasov, G.A. 2000. Barnacles of the genus Heteralepas (Thecostraca, Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Canary Islands and the Azores. Description of mantle ultrastructure. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 79(11): 1275–1283. (in Russian). Reference page. 

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Heteralepas microstoma – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Heteralepas microstoma.
• ION
• Heteralepas microstoma in the World Register of Marine Species
• NHM acquisition page

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