Megalasma striatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lepadomorpha
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 Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Lepadomorpha

Familia: Poecilasmatidae
Genus: Megalasma
Species: Megalasma striatum

Name

• Megalasma striatum Hoek, 1883: 51
  • Symbiont: epibiont on echinoid spines; Echinus type host
  • Geological age: lower Pleistocene to Recent
  • Type locality: Challenger station 204, 12°43'N, 122°10'E, 100-115 fathoms
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: Indo-West Pacific to east Africa, China Sea, Australia, New Zealand, southwest Pacific
  • ZooBank: 241A18F2-2B2C-4F36-B05A-39BC55B4938A

Synonyms

• Megalasma (Megalasma) elegans Newman In Zullo & Newman, 1964
  • Junior objective synonym, see Jones & Hosie, 1964
  • Type locality: southwest end of Nasca Ridge (Fig. 1) at 85°25'W , 25°44'S, 228 m
  • Typus: Holotype: UCMP 37860. Paratypes: UCMP 37861, 37862. Additional specimen: USNM 109781
  • ZooBank: 7704A9E3-F9B8-40EB-81E6-CDF160C06696

References

• Hoek, P.P.C. 1883. Report on the Cirripedia collected by Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Reports of Science Research Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Zoology. 8(25): 1–169. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 51, original description]

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• Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene -- early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean. Part 2. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 189–207. Reference page.  [See p. 192, fossil occurrence]
• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 247, distribution, synonyms]
• Zevina, G.B. 1982: Barnacles of the suborder Lepadomorpha (Cirripedia, Thoracica) of the world oceans. II: Guides to the Fauna of the USSR, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 133: 1-223. ‘‘Nauka’’, Leningrad. (in Russian). Reference page.  [See p. 80, as Megalasma (Megalasma) striatum
• Zullo, V.A. & Newman, W.A. 1964. Thoracic Cirripedia from a southeast Pacific guyot. Pacific Science 18(4): 355–372. hdl: 10125/7148 . Reference page.  [See p. 355, as Megalasma (Megalasma) elegans]

Links

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