Taxonavigation

Familia: Poecilasmatidae
Genus: Poecilasma
Species: Poecilasma kaempferi

Name

Poecilasma kaempferi Darwin, 1852: 102

• Symbiont: Commensal epibiont on crab Inachus kaempferi
• Type locality: Japan
• Types: BMNH
• Distribution: Cosmopolitan in warm and tropical waters, 19-1885 m
• ZooBank: 87B7C3F4-BE6E-469F-B6F8-17EC2A0CFA59

Synonyms

• Poecilasma dubium Hoek, 1907: 6
  • Synonymized by most later authors
  • ZooBank: 0E5894C0-3788-435A-8B9D-149EBFAC396E
• Poecilasma kaempferi eukaempferi Broch, 1931: 29
  • ZooBank: 4124A406-9740-4437-BB29-D13771C8BB06
• Poecilasma kaempferi novaeangliae Pilsbry, 1907: 85
  • Considered ecotype variant in Foster & Buckeridge, 1995
  • ZooBank: F0446A42-CBF1-415B-A4CA-A47D63A27312

References

• Broch, H. 1931: Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-1916. LVI. Indomalayan Cirripedia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, 91: 1–146. Reference page. 

• Darwin, C. 1852. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 1 The Lepadidae or Pedunculated Cirrepedes. Ray Society. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 102, original description]

• Foster, B.A.; Buckeridge, J. S. 1995: Barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) of seas off Reunion Island and the East Indies. Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (A), 4th series, 16(2-4): 345–382. Reference page.  [See p. 166]

• Hoek, P.P.C. 1907: The Cirripedia of the Siboga Expedition: A. Cirripedia Pedunculata. Siboga-Expeditie XXXI. EJ Brill. 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. 238, distribution, references]

• 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, as Poecilasma kaempferi kaempferi, distribution, updated synonymy]

• Nilsson-cantell, C.A. 1938: Cirripedes from the Indian Ocean in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 13: 1–81. Reference page.  [See p. 9. as Trilasmis kaempferi]

• 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. 84, redescription, distribution]