Taxonavigation

Subordo: Heteralepadomorpha
Familia: Heteralepadidae
Genus: Alepas
Species: Alepas pacifica

Name

Alepas pacifica Pilsbry, 1907: 105

• Symbiont: Commensal epibiont on various medusae
• Type locality: Sea north of San Francisco, California
• Types: USNM 28797
• Distribution: Tropical Indo-west Pacific: Indian Ocean; Australia; Malaysia; China; Pacific Ocean from

Japan and California to Tasmania; South Atlantic

• ZooBank

Synonyms

Alepas investigator Annandale, 1914: 276

• Synonymized in Zevina, 1982
• ZooBank: CD00767A-F016-4F5D-8966-86105170929C

References

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: The barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the U.S. National Museum. Bulletin -- United States National Museum 60: 1–122. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 105, original description]

• Annandale, T.N. 1914. New and interesting pedunculate Cirripedes from the Indian Seas. Records of the Indian Museum, 10(1): 273–80. BHL Reference page. 

• Jones, D.S., Hewitt, M.A. & Sampey, A. 2000. A checklist of the Cirripedia of the South China Sea. In The Biodiversity of South China Sea. Raffles bulletin of zoology, supplement (8): 233–307. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 247]

• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 246, synonymy, distribution]

• 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.