Verruca stroemia

Verruca stroemia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Verrucomorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Ordine: Verrucomorpha

Familia: Verrucidae
Genus: Verruca
Species: Verruca stroemia

Name

• Verruca stroemia (Muller, 1776): 251
  • Original genus: Lepas
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Pliocene (Piacenzian); Japan, Alaska, (Zanclean to Piacenzian); North Carolina, northern Europe: Recent, Portugal to White Sea, Iceland, Spitzbergen
  • Type locality: "North Sea"
  • Typus: Unspecified
  • ZooBank: 89B91D61-882B-475F-ABDC-F49A1AF11F17

Synonymy

• Verruca alaskana Pilsbry In MacNeil et al., 1943: 95
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Pliocene, Nome, Alaska
  • Type locality: Pliocene, Intermediate Beach, loc. 14866
  • Typus: Holotype USNM 499117; paratype USNM 499109
  • Synonymized in Gale & Sadorf, 2025: 14
  • ZooBank: 3B4BAE06-18DC-4560-B27E-D8CC2F24D08C
• Verruca koikei Tanaka, Kawase, Narita & Karasawa In Koike et al., 2006: 1
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Pliocene, lower; Japan
  • Type locality: Ogikubo Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Japan
  • Typus: Holotype SFMCA-0013); 6 Paratypes (SFMCA-0014~0019)
  • Synonymized in Gale, 2024: 14
  • ZooBank: 65BEA41A-E6E1-45B7-A922-9720094B1932

References

• Müller, O.F. 1776. Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallager: Havniae [=Copenhagen]. i–xxxii + 1–282 pp. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 251, original description as Lepas stroemia

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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. 518, as Verruca stroemia, generic re-assignment]
• Gale, A.S. & Sadorf, E. 2025. Pliocene distribution of the cirripede Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776) and revised definitions of the verrucid genera Verruca, Metaverruca and Priscoverruca (Thoracica, Crustacea). Acta Geologica Polonica 75(1): e39. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2024.152661 Reference page.  [See p. 9, synonymizations, discussion]
• Koike, H., Tanaka, T., Kawase, M., Narita, K. & Karasawa, H. 2006. A first notice of the genus Verruca (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Sessilia) from the Pliocene of Japan. Research Report of the Shinshushinmachi Fossil Museum 9: 1–3. Reference page.  [See p. 1, as Verruca koikei, junior synonym]

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