Taxonavigation

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Acastinae
Genus: Acasta
Species: Acasta spongites

Name

Acasta spongites (Poli, 1791: 25)

• Original genus: Lepas
• Symbiont: obligate symbiont on sponge family Dysidaeidae
• Type locality: unknown
• Types: not designated
• Distribution: Taiwan, Vietnam, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Cape of Good Hope
• ZooBank: 7B817D86-2DCA-4994-BDE3-DDC662EC7489

Synonyms

• Balanus spongeosus Montagu, 1808
• Balanus spongites de Blainville
• Lepas spongiosa Wood
• Acasta montagui Leach, 1818
• Balanus montagui Brown, 1844

References

• 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. 308]

• Kolbasov, G.A. 1993. Revision of the genus Acasta Leach (Cirripedia: Balanoidea). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 109(4): 395–427. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1993.tb00307.x Reference page.  [See Table 1]

• 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. 242]

• Poli, G.X. 1791. Testacea utriusque Siciliae, enormque historia et anatome, tabulis aenis illustrata. Parmae. 1: 1–38. [In Latin] BHLReference page.  [see p. 25, as Lepas spongites]

• Poltarukha, O. P.; Zvyagintsev, A.Yu. 2008: Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) of Vietnam, and their role in fouling communities. KMK Scientific Press, Ltd., Moscow. 335 p. [In Russian] ISBN 978-5-87317-453-9 Reference page.  [See p. 142]