Tetraclitella purpurascens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tetraclitoidea

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: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Tetraclitoidea

Familia: Tetraclitidae
Subfamilia: Tetraclitellinae
Genus: Tetraclitella
Species: Tetraclitella purpurascens

Name

• Tetraclitella purpurascens (Wood, 1815): 55
  • Original genus: Lepas
  • Type locality: South Seas
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: Australia, New Zealand to East Africa
  • ZooBank: 71C2DA70-23DF-4C19-880D-69FB1D7A5DF0

References

• Wood, W. 1815. General conchology: or a description of shells arranged according to the Linnean system, and illustrated with plates, drawn and coloured from nature. John Booth, London, 246 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 55, original description as Lepas purpurascens]

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• 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. 337, as Tetraclita purpurascens, generic re-assignment]
• Hiro, F. 1939: Studies on the cirripedian fauna of Japan. IV. Cirripeds of Formosa (Taiwan) with some geographical and ecological remarks on the littoral forms. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, Series B 15(2): 245–284. pdf Reference page.  [See p. 273, fixing as type species, as Tetraclita (Tetraclitella) purpurascens]
• 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. 47]]