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Calanticidae Zevina 1978

Description

†FAMILY CALANTICIDAE ZEVINA, 1978 (CRETACEOUS–RECENT)

Diagnosis: Number of plates highly variable (Jones & Hosie, 2009); usually with three pairs of larger laterals (rostrolatus, upper latus and carinolatus), often with subrostrum and subcarina; inframedian latus probably absent.

Comment: Monophyletic in molecular analyses.

Aurivillialepas Newman, 1980 (Miocene-Recent) (five species)

Calantica Gray, 1825 (Cretaceous–Recent) (17 species)

Crosnieriella Jones, 1998 (one species)

Euscalpellum Hoek, 1907 (Eocene–Recent) (seven species)

Gruvelialepas Newman, 1980 (Pleistocene–Recent) (three species)

Newmanilepas Zevina & Yakhontova, 1987 (one species)

†† Pachyscalpellum Buckeridge, 1991 (Cretaceous) (three species)

Paracalantica Utinomi, 1958 (one species)

Pisiscalpellum Utinomi, 1958 (one species)

Scillaelepas Seguenza, 1872 (Miocene-Recent) (six species)

Smilium Gray, 1825 (15 species)

Zeascalpellum Buckeridge, 1983 (Eocene) (one species)

Notes

Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 829, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275

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References

  • Jones DS, Hosie AM. 2009. A new species of Calantica from Western Australian waters (Thoracica: Scalpellomorpha: Calanticidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 239 - 246.
  • Buckeridge JS. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 50: 1 - 151 + pls.