Catophragminae

Catophragminae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Order: Sessilia
Suborder: Balanomorpha
Superfamily: Chthamaloidea
Family: Catophragmidae
Subfamily: Catophragminae
Utinomi, 1968[1]:36

Catophragminae is a subfamily of acorn barnacles. This subfamily includes the genera Catophragmus Sowerby, 1826, and Catolasmus Ross & Newman, 2001.[2]:81 Species included all have a calcareous basis, carinate imbricating plates, and with long multi-segmented caudal appendage.

Originally, Utinomi[1]:36 established Catophragminae as a subfamily of the Chthamalidae to include those genera with imbricating plate whorls. Chionelasmus was at first considered a chthamalid,[3]40 but was later placed into its own family, Chionelasmatidae. Ross and Newman, 2001 re-established Catophragminae.[2]:81

Catophragminae are the Northern Hemisphere representatives of the Catophragmidae. Their present range is Pacific Coast of Central America, Caribbean, Bermuda, Cuba, and tropical Western Atlantic. They prefer cryptic subtidal or lower intertidal locations on rocky shores.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Huzio Utinomi (1968). "A revision of the deep-sea barnacles Pachylasma and Hexelasma from Japan, with a proposal of new classification of the Chthamalidae (Cirripedia, Thoracica)". Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 16 (1): 21–39.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ross, A.; W. A. Newman (2001). "The Catophragmidae: Members of the basal balanomorph radiation". Sessile Organisms 18 (2): 77–91.
  3. ↑ Newman, W. A.; A. Ross (1976). "Revision of the Balanomorph Barnacles including a catalog of the species". Memoirs of San Diego Society of Natural History 9: 1–108.
  4. ↑ Sowerby, G. B. (1826). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in Conchology and Geology, with the original plates. London.

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