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Gruvelialepas , Newman 1980

  • 1. Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Sezione di Oceanologia e Paleoecologia, Corso Italia 55, I- 95129 Catania (Italy) rdigeron @ unict. it

Description

Genus Gruvelialepas Newman, 1980

TYPE SPECIES. — Scalpellum pilsbryi Gruvel, 1911, by original designation.

REMARKS

This genus comprises species with 15 capitular plates. The capitulum is composed of two whorls of plates. The upper whorl is formed by five plates, namely a carina and a pair of scuta and terga. The lower whorl includes 10 plates, namely a rostrum and subcarina, a pair of rostrolatera, mediolatera and carinolatera, and two subrostra.

Notes

Published as part of Geronimo, Raffaella Di, 2009, A new species of Gruvelialepas Newman, 1980 (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the northern Atlantic and remarks on living and fossil closely-related genera, pp. 63-70 in Zoosystema 31 (1) on page 65

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Calanticidae
Genus
Gruvelialepas
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Pedunculata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
, Newman
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Gruvelialepas , 1980 sec. Geronimo, 2009

References

  • NEWMAN W. A. 1980. - A review of extant Scillaelepas (Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) including recognition of new species from the North Atlantic, West Indies and New Zealand. Tethys 9 (4): 379 - 398.
  • GRUVEL A. 1911. - Sur deux especes nouvelles de Cirrhipedes appartenant a la collection du Museum. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 17: 290 - 292.