Taxonavigation

Familia: Lepadidae
Genus: Lepas
Species: Lepas pectinata

Name

• Lepas pectinata Spengler, 1792: 106
  • Geological age: upper Pliocene to Recent
  • Type locality:
  • Types:
  • Distribution: Upper Pliocene to lower Pleistocene, Mascarene Plateau; cosmopolitan, pelagic attached to floating objects
  • ZooBank: F3A6D448-D43D-4B3B-BA94-EF2B7179082D

References

• Spengler, L. 1792. Beskrivelse over tvende nye arter af Lepas. Naturhist-Selskabet Kjobenhavn Skrifter 2(11): 103-110, pl. 10. HathiTrust Reference page.  [See p. 106, original description]

• Darwin, C. 1852. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 1 The Lepadidae or Pedunculated Cirrepedes. Ray Society. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 85, synonyms, extensive redescription]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene-Early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean, Part I. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 151–188. Reference page.  [See p. 153, fossil occurrence]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: The barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the U.S. National Museum. Bulletin -- United States National Museum 60: 1–122. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 81, discussion]
• 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. 35, synonymy]
• Zevina, G.B. 1981. Barnacles (Cirripedia). In: Mironov & Kuznetsov, ‘‘Benthos of the submarine mountains Marcus-Necker and adjacent Pacific regions’’. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Academy of Sciences of the USSR: 56–62. (in Russian). Reference page.  [See p. 15, as Lepas (Anatifa) pectinata]