Aurivillialepas
Description
Key to the genus Aurivillialepas based on external morphology
(capitulum composed of 14 plates including one subrostrum)
1. Rostrolatus acute, apical angle 60–70°. Peduncle long and narrow............................................... 2
- Rostrolatus obtuse, apical angle approximately 90°. Peduncle quite wide and short.................................. 3
2. Carina continuous with carinal margins of tergum; carina narrow in lateral aspect, not reaching the apex of median latus.................................................................................. A. falcata (Aurivillius, 1898)
- Carina apex free of carinal margin of tergum; carina wide in lateral aspect, reaching the apex of median latus........................................................................................... A. arnaudi (Newman, 1980)
3. Rostrolatus overlapping carinolatus....................................................................... 4
- Rostrolatus separated from carinolatus............................................. A. bocquetae (Newman, 1980)
4. Carina slightly curved, scutum about 1.5 times higher than wide, its apex strongly curved toward tergum................................................................................................ A. rhabdota (Young, 1999)
- Carina curved, scutum high as wide, its apex slightly curved toward tergum............... A. calycula (Aurivillius, 1898)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Calanticidae
- Genus
- Aurivillialepas
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pedunculata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Aurivillius, C. W. S. (1898) Cirrhipedes nouveaux provenant des campagnes scientifiques de S. A. S. le Prince de Monaco. Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France, 23 (16), 189 - 198.
- Newman, W. A. (1980) A review of extant Scillaelepas (Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) including recognition of new species from the North Atlantic, Western Indian Ocean and New Zealand. Tethys, 9 (4), 379 - 398.
- Young, P. S. (1999) The Cirripedia (Crustacea) collected by the RV Marion Dufresne along the Vitoria-Trindade seamounts (Brazil). Zoosystema, 21 (4), 607 - 624.