Taxonavigation

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

Name

• Platylepas ophiophila Lanchester, 1902: 371
  • Symbiont: obligate commensal on sea snakes (type host Enhydris curtus)
  • Type locality: unknown
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: Indo-west Pacific; South China Sea; Arabian Sea; West Australia
  • ZooBank: ABA0921E-E011-4517-8680-D258B44CA5B6

References

• Lanchester, W.F. 1902: On the Crustacea collected during the “Skeat Expedition” to the Malay Peninsula. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1902 2: 363–381. BHLReference page.  [See p. 371, original description, as Platylepas ophiophilus, emended]

• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 267, synonymy and distribution]
• 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, mention, and secondary homonymy]
• Ross, A. & Frick, M.G. 2011. Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha). Zootaxa 3106: 60–66. Preview Reference page.  [See p. 62]