Taxonavigation

Familia: Austrobalanidae
Subfamilia: Elminiinae
Genus: Epopella
Species: Epopella plicata

Name

Epopella plicata (Gray, 1843: 269)

• Original genus: Elminius
• Type locality: New Zealand
• Types:
• ZooBank: 1B52C8FA-FD1E-490E-AED0-11C5902519A0

Synonyms

Elminius rugosus Hutton, 1878: 328

• Synonymized by Foster, 1978
• ZooBank: AF39A872-96A7-4902-8348-60857A3C08E2

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. 351, as Elminius plicatus]

• Foster, B. A. 1978: The marine fauna of New Zealand: barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Memoir 69, 160 p. Reference page.  [See p. 90, as Epopella plicata]

• Gray, J.E. 1843: Appendix, p. 269. In Dieffenbach, E.: Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country. Volume 2. John Murray, London, England. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 269, as Elminius plicatus]

• Hutton, F.W 1878: List of the New Zealand Cirripedia in the Otago Museum. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 11: 328–330.BHLarticle Reference page. 

• 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. 46]

• 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. 261]

• Ross, A. 1970: Studies on the Tetraclitidae (Cirripedia: Thoracica): a proposed new genus for the austral species Tetraclita purpurascens breviscutum. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 16(1): 1-12. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 9, generic reassignment as Epopella plicata]