Taxonavigation

Familia: Waikalasmatidae
Genus: Waikalasma
Species (3): W. boucheti – W. dianajonesae – †W. juneae

Name

Waikalasma Buckeridge, 1983: 64

• Gender: [feminine]
• Original status: valid genus
• Type species: Waikalasma juneae Buckeridge, 1983, by original designation [and monotypy]
• Geological range: lower Miocene; living
• ZooBank

References

• Buckeridge, J.S. 1983: Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin, (50) Reference page.  [See p. 64, original description]

• Buckeridge, J.S. 1996. A living fossil Waikalasma boucheti n. sp. (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) from Vanuatu (New Hebrides), Southwest Pacific. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (A), 18(3-4): 447–457. Full article on BioNames (PDF) Reference page. 

• Buckeridge, J.S.; Newman, W.A. 1992: A reexamination of Waikalasma (Cirripedia: Thoracica) and its significance in balanomorph phylogeny. Journal of paleontology, 66(2): 341–345. JSTOR Reference page. 

• Chan, B.K-K., Chen, H-N., Moreno, P.A.R. & Corbari, L. 2016. Diversity and biogeography of the little known deep-sea barnacles of the genus Waikalasma Buckeridge, 1983 (Balanomorpha: Chionelasmatoidea) in the Southwest Pacific, with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History, 50(47-48): 2961-2984. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1226445 . Reference page. 

• Ross, A.; Newman, W.A. 2001: The Catophragmidae: members of the basal balanomorph radiation. Sessile organisms 18(2): 77-91. DOI: 10.4282/sosj.18.77 Reference page.  [See p. 85, discussion of placement]