Metaverruca

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucomorpha
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: Sessilia Subordo: Verrucomorpha

Familia: Verrucidae
Subfamilia: Priscoverrucinae
Genus: Metaverruca
Species (17): M. aequalis – M. cornuta – M. corrugata – M. defayeae – †M. euganea – M. halotheca – M. lepista – M. macani – M. maclaughlinae – M. norfolkensis – M. pacifica – M. plicata – M. recta – M. reunioni – M. sensibilis – M. seriola – M. trisulcata

Name

• Metaverruca Pilsbry, 1916: 21
  • Geological range: upper Eocene to Recent
  • Type species: Verruca coraliophila Pilsbry, 1916: 21, original designation (junior synonym of Verruca recta Aurivillius, 1898)
  • ZooBank: 4A055DB4-3C58-46D4-AE48-21840DB0E1B7

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. 21, original description]

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• Aurivillius, C.W.S. 1898: Cirrhipedes nouveaux provenant des campagnes scientifiques de SAS le Prince de Monaco. Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France, 23: 189–198. [In French] BHL Reference page.  [See p. 195]
• Gale, A.S. 2014. Origin and phylogeny of verrucomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(9): 753–789. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.954409 Reference page.  [See p. 28, assignment to Proverrucinae]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene-Early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean, Part I. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 151–188. Reference page.  [See p. 167, discussion, species comparisons]
• Young, P. S. 1998. Cirripedia (Crustacea) from the "Campagne Bioazores" in the Azores region, including a generic revision of the Verrucidae. Zoosystema, 20(1): 32-91. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 54, synonymy of type species]

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Metaverruca – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Metaverruca.
• ION
• Metaverruca in the World Register of Marine Species, accessed on June 29, 2014