Metaverruca dilatata

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: Metaverruca dilatata

Name

• Metaverruca dilatata (Seguenza, 1873): 80
  • Original genus: Verruca
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Pleistocene (Gelasian), Mediterranean; living, northeast Atlantic to Spain and North Morocco
  • Type locality: Sant’Nicandro, near Messina, Italy
  • Typus: Lectotype Seguenza, 1873, pl. 4, fig. 2, by Gale, 2021; specimen lost
  • ZooBank: F15E064A-2C70-452E-948B-7062350CD9A4

Synonymy

• Verruca dilatata minor Seguenza, 1873: 83
  • Synonymized in Gale, Rosso & Vertino, 2021
  • Type locality: Trapani Italy
  • Typus:
  • ZooBank: FEBEFB29-08D4-4168-B83E-BFEB4505E42A
• Verruca radiata Gruvel, 1901: 262
  • Synonymized in Gale, Rosso & Vertino, 2021
  • Type locality: Off Morocco; Talisman Station DR36, 31°34'0.0084N; 10°21'0E
  • Typus: Lectotype MNHN-IU-2013-16416, selected by Young, 2002: 784
  • ZooBank: E0219636-5944-4E17-A6B7-FED35602D246

References

• Seguenza, G. 1873: Recirche Paleontologiche intorno ai Cirripedi terziari della provincia de Messina. Con appendici intorno ai Cirripedi viventi nel Mediterraneo e sui fossili terziari dell'Italia Meridionale Parte I Balanidi e Verrucidi (1873). Atti della Accademia Pontaniana 10: 266-366. Reference page.  [See p. 80, original description as Verruca dilatata; also see p. 83, as Verruca dilatata minor, junior synonym]

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• Buckeridge, J.S. 1994. Cirripedia Thoracica: Verrucomorpha of New Caledonia, Indonesia, Wallis and Futuna Islands, in Crosnier, A. (éd.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 12, Mémoires de Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 161: 87–125. Reference page.  [See p. 93, as Altiverruca radiata; see p. 103, as Cameraverruca radiata,generic re-assignments]
• Gale, A.S., Rosso, A. & Vertino, A. 2021. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) and a review of the history of Mediterranean Cainozoic cirripedes. Cainozoic Research 21(1)ː 3–73. Reference page.  [See p. 20, as Metaverruca dilatata, generic re-assignment, synonomy, distribution]
• 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. 262, as Verruca radiata, junior synonym]
• 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. 77, as Newmaniverruca radiata, generic re-assignment]
• Young, P.S. 2002. Revision of the Verrucidae (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the Atlantic Ocean studied by Abel Gruvel (Travailleur and Talisman scientific expeditions). Zoosystema 24(4): 771–797. pdf Reference page.  [See p. 784, as Metaverruca radiata, generic re-assignment, lectotype, redescription]