Platylepas hexastylos

Platylepas hexastylos

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coronuloidea

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 Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Coronuloidea

Familia: Platylepadidae
Subfamilia: Platylepadinae
Genus: Platylepas
Species: Platylepas hexastylos

Name

• Platylepas hexastylos (Fabricius, 1798): 35
  • Original genus: Lepas
  • Symbiont: embedded epibiont of sea turtles and sirenians
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Middle Pleistocene, Japan; Mediterranean, tropical and subtropical seas
  • Type locality: probably Mediterranean (Pilsbry, 1916)
  • Typus: probably lost
  • ZooBank: ACA8D1E2-2E14-49DC-8F07-6D9862F263FE

Synonyms

• Coronula bisexlobata Blainville, 1824: 379
  • Synonymized in Pilsbry, 1916: 285
  • ZooBank: 836E3429-017C-448D-9DE7-18B158BD4474
• Platylepas pulchra Gray, 1825: 105
  • Synonymized in Darwin, 1854: 428
  • ZooBank: C819A5BA-CEA4-450D-8410-BE9EC82DC5E0
• Coronula californiensis Chenu, 1825
  • Synonymized in Darwin, 1854: 428

References

• Fabricius, O. 1798. Tillæg til Conchylie-Slægterne Lepas, Pholas, Mya og Solen. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 4(2): 34–48. BHL Reference page.  [See p. {BHLpage|58274066|35}} original description, as Lepas hexastylos]

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• Blainville, H.M.D. de 1824. Nematopoda. Dictionaire des sciences naturelles (Mollusques-Morfil), 32: 372–380. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 379, as Coronula bisexlobata, junior synonym]

Template:Chenu, 1825 [See as Coronula californiensis, junior synonym]

• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 428, as Platylepas bisexlobata, generic re-assignment from Coronula bisexlobata, and synonymy]
• Gray, J.E. 1825. A synopsis of the genera of Cirripedes arranged in natural families, with a description of some new species. Annals of Philosophy new series 10: 97–107. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 105, as Platylepas pulchra, junior synonym]
• Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2022. Cirripedes from the Middle Pleistocene Atsumi Group, Japan, with a reevaluation of the genus Adna Sowerby, 1823 (Balanoidea: Pyrgomatidae). Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 49: 67–93. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.49.0_67 Reference page.  [See p. 68, fossil occurrence]
• Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 44]
• 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. 285, as Platylepas hexastylos, generic re-assignment]