Tetraclitella

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 Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Tetraclitoidea

Familia: Tetraclitidae
Subfamilia: Tetraclitellinae
Genus: Tetraclitella
Species (6 + 3†): T. chinensis – T. depressa – T. divisa – T. karandei – T. multicostata – T. purpurascens – †T. judiciae – †T. miocenica – †T. nodicostata

[Source: WoRMS

Check (4): T. digita – (considered conspecific with T. karandei; see Ross & Perreault, 1999: 6) T. costata – T. hyastina – T. pilsbryi
(re-assigned to Eotetraclitella Ross & Perreault, 1999): 6)

Name

• Tetraclitella Hiro, 1939: 273
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Type species: Lepas purpurascens Wood, 1815: 55, original designation by Hiro, 1939e (p. 273)
  • ZooBank: C7479B74-FE7C-476F-AE90-69F64E6EA85F

References

• 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. Reference page.  [See p. 273]

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• Buckeridge, J.S. 2008. Two new species and a new subspecies of Tetraclitella (Cirripedia: Thoracica) from the Cainozoic of Australia and New Zealand and a consideration of the significance of tubiferous walls. Zootaxa 1897: 43–52. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/%25x Reference page. 
• Ross, A. & Perreault, R.T. 1999. Revision of the Tetraclitellinae and description of a new species of Newmanella Ross from the tropical western-Atlantic Ocean (Cirripedia: Tetraclitoidea). Sessile organisms 15(2): 1–8. DOI: 10.4282/sosj.15.2_1 Reference page.  [See p. 6]
• 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]

Links

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