Acasta
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Balanoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Acastinae
Genus: Acasta
Species (60 + 7†):
A. acuta –
A. alba –
A. alcyonicola –
A. armata –
A. aspera –
A. canaliculata –
A. caveata –
A. chejudoensis –
A. clausa –
A. conica –
A. coriolis –
A. crassa –
A. crucibasis –
A. cyathus –
A. daedalusa –
A. demura –
A. denticulata –
A. dentifer –
A. echinata –
A. fenestrata –
A. flexuosa –
A. folliculus –
A. foraminifera –
A. fragilis –
A. gregaria –
A. hirsuta –
A. huangi –
A. idiopoma –
A. infirma –
A. japonica –
A. koltuni –
A. lappa –
A. longibasis –
A. madagascariensis –
A. milkae –
A. navicula –
A. newmani –
A. paraspinifera –
A. pertusa –
A. purpurata –
A. pygmaea –
A. radenta –
A. rimiformis –
A. sandwichi –
A. semota –
A. serrata –
A. sinica –
A. spinosa –
A. spongiteformis –
A. spongites –
A. squamosa –
A. striata –
A. sulcata –
A. turriformis –
A. tzetlini –
A. umitosaka –
A. undulaterga –
A. vipensis –
A. vivicava –
†A. fischeri –
†A. formae –
†A. martillacensis –
†A. muricata –
†A. sarda –
†A. undulata –
†A. vesiculosa
[Source: WoRMS+ authors]
Check (2†):
†A. hebertiana – [regarded by Carriol, 2008: 45 as indeterminate]
†A. schafferi
[regarded by Carriol, 2008: 44 as not Acasta]
Name
- Acasta Leach, 1817: 69
- Original status: valid genus
- Geological range: Miocene to Recent
- Type species: Lepas spongites Poli, 1791: 25, subsequent designation by Pilsbry, 1916
- ZooBank: EF74B619-5D17-4CD0-9939-36D6C386D397
References
- Leach, W.E. 1817. Distribution systematique de la class Cirripedes. Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts 85: 67–69. Reference page. [See p. 69]
- Chan, B.K-K., Dreyer, N., Gale, A.S., Glenner, H., Ewers-Saucedo, C., Perez-Losada, M., Kolbasov, G.A., Crandall, K.A. & Høeg, J.T. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(3): 789–846. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160
Reference page. [See p. 48] - Carriol, R.-P. 2008. New genus and new species of Cirripedia (Chthamalidae, Tetraclitidae, Archaeobalanidae and Balanidae) from the Middle Miocene of the faluns of Touraine (France). Zootaxa 1675: 31–48. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. (See p. 44, A. vesiculosa, and discussion of extinct European species)
- 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. 302]
- 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.
- Kolbasov, G.A., Chan, B.K-K., Molodtsova, T. & Achituv, Y. 2016. Revision of the coral-inhabiting genus Conopea (Cirripedia: Archaeobalanidae) with description of two new species of the genera Conopea and Acasta. Zootaxa 4178(2): 182–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.2. Reference page.
- Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 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. 52]
- 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. 241]
- Van Syoc, R.J. & Winther, R. 1999: Sponge-inhabiting barnacles of the Americas: A new species of Acasta (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae), first record from the Eastern Pacific, including discussion of the evolution of cirral morphology. Crustaceana 72(5): 467-486. JSTORReference page. (Acasta newmani)