Lepas kuwayamai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lepadoidea

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: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Scalpellomorpha Superfamily: Lepadoidea

Familia: Lepadidae
Genus: Lepas
Species: †Lepas kuwayamai

Name

• Lepas kumayamai Karasawa. Tanaka & Okumura, 2004: 91
  • Stratigraphic and Geologic range: lower Miocene, Japan
  • Type locality: Yamanouchi Member of the Akeyo Formation, Mizunami Group, exposed at Matsugase (Loc. MFM54; Karasawa, 1991: 7), Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture
  • Typus: Holotype MFM9043; paratypes MFM9044-9051
  • ZooBank: CA4F62B4-7452-45D1-A4FF-10B6F4CA993E

References

• Karasawa, H., Tanaka, T. & Okumura, Y. 2004. A new species of Lepas (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Pedunculata) from the Miocene Mizunami Group, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 31: 91–93. Reference page.  [See p. 91, original description]

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• Karasawa, H. 2020. Cenozoic pedunculate barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) deposited in the Mizunami Fossil Museum, Japan. Buletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 47: 21–40. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.47.0_21 pdf Reference page.  [See p. 26, discussion, distribution]
• Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2025. Cirripedes from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan, with the description of a new species of Amphibalanus Pitombo from the Iwamura Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 52(1): 55––99. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.52.1_55. Reference page.  [See p. 58, discussion]