Taxonavigation

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: Conopea
Species: Conopea calceola

Name

Conopea calceola (Ellis, 1758: 853)

• Original genus: Balanus
• Original status: valid species
• Geological age: Miocene to Recent
• Symbiont: Commensal on gorgonian corals
• Type locality: West Africa
• Types: BMNH
• Distribution: Miocene-Pleistocene, Italy; Pliocene, England; living, widespread from Mediterranean to South Africa; Persian Gulf through Indian Ocean to western Australia and Japan
• ZooBank: 2DA92131-E0CB-45EC-B678-1989E44319F4

References

• Carriol, R-P. & Schneider, S. 2016. New species of cirripedes (Calanticidae, Scalpellidae and Archaeobalanidae) from the mid Burdigalian (Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 102(1): 41–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.002 Full article (PDF).Reference page. 

• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 218, as Balanus calceolus] (first to use valid binomial form of species, regarded as author by some)

• Ellis, J. 1758: An account of several rare species of barnacles. Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society London, 50: 845–856, pi. 34. JSTORReference page.  [See p. 853, as Balanus calceolus keratophyto involutus] (not binomial author, but considered by most as author of name and concept)

• Newman, W.A.; Ross, A. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 54]

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916: The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 238] (as Balanus (Conopea) calceola) (see for discussion of authorship of species)