Taxonavigation

Familia: Poecilasmatidae
Genus: Poecilasma
Species: Poecilasma crassa

Name

Poecilasma crassa (Gray, 1848: 44)

• Original genus: Anatifa
• Symbiont: Epibiotic commensal on Gorgonia (Gray, 1848); on Homola curierii (Darwin, 1852)
• Type locality: Madeira
• Types: BMNH
• Distribution: Madeira, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, in warmer waters
• ZooBank: 855BEC79-DD09-4691-93C1-C19C2A9CB1AD

Synonyms

Poecilasma inaequilaterale breve Pilsbry, 1907: 87

• ZooBank: D8A85D42-1CEE-44B6-BABE-DE8719F1DB6F
• Synonymised in Zevina, 1982: 96

References

• 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. 107, as Poecilasma crassa, generic reassignment]
• Gray, J.E. 1848. Description of a new species of Anatifa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 16: 44. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 44, original description, as Anatifa crassa]
• Nilsson-Cantell, C.A. 1938: Cirripedes from the Indian Ocean in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 13: 1–81. Reference page.  [See p. 9, as Trilasmis crassa]
• Zevina, G.B. 1982: Barnacles of the suborder Lepadomorpha (Cirripedia, Thoracica) of the world oceans. II: Guides to the Fauna of the USSR, Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 133: 1-223. ‘‘Nauka’’, Leningrad. (in Russian). Reference page.  [See p. 96, synonymy]