Taxonavigation

Familia: Poecilasmatidae
Genus: Octolasmis
Species: Octolasmis lowei

Name

Octolasmis lowei (Darwin, 1852: 128)

• Original genus: Dichelaspis
• Symbiont: Commensal in gill chambers of decapods
• Type locality: Madeira
• Types: BMNH
• Distribution: Atlantic Ocean; Indo-West Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean; Australia; Malay Archipelago; Taiwan; Japan; shallow to 500 m
• ZooBank: 6C8E1B54-C819-47BE-B773-49996A0E8087

Synonyms

Dichelaspis mulleri Coker, 1902: 403

• Synonymized in Pilsbry, 1907
• ZooBank: 32F42EF2-3FEA-4B39-9BD2-406513878E24

Dichelaspis sinuata Aurivillius, 1894: 17

• Synonymized in Zevina, 1982
• ZooBank: C981E3CF-D487-4091-B74C-A3E88F16929F

Dichelaspis trigona Aurivillius, 1894: 19

• Synonymized in Zevina, 1982
• ZooBank: 514686AA-3897-4EC9-9CBF-B354C3BFE419

Octolasmis californiana Newman, 1960: 9

• Synonymized in Zevina, 1982
• Types: Holotype USNM 104425; paratypes USNM 104426, from Vicinity of San Clemente Island, 118° 20' N, 32° 50' W
• ZooBank: 874A0B33-29EF-4C75-B17D-20CAD109EB92

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. 128, as Dichelaspis lowei, original description]

• 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. 243, distribution]

• 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. 250, synonymy, distribution]

• Newman, W.A. 1960. Five pedunculate Cirripeds From the Western Pacific, Including Two New Forms. Crustaceana, 1(2): 100–116. JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 106, comparisons with other species]

• Nilsson-cantell, C.A. 1927: Some barnacles in the British Museum (Natural History). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 97(3): 743–790. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1927.tb07432.x Reference page.  [See p. , synonymy]

• 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. 95] (junior synonym)

• Voris, H.K. & Jeffries, W.B. 1997. Size, distribution and significance of capitular plates in Octolasmis (Cirripedia: Poecilasmatidae). Journal of crustacean biology, 17(2): 217-226. DOI: 10.2307/1549272 JSTOR Reference page.  [See Table 4, host data]