Ceratoconcha multicostata

Taxonavigation

Familia: Pyrgomatidae
Subfamilia: Ceratoconchinae
Genus: Ceratoconcha
Species: Ceratoconcha multicostata

Name

• Ceratoconcha multicostata (Seguenza, 1873): 55
  • Original genus: Pyrgoma
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Pliocene, Sicily
  • Type locality: near Rometta, Sicily
  • Typus: Lectotype specimen illustrated in Sequenza, 1873, pl. 2, fig. 7 (lost); selected by Gale, 2021
  • ZooBank: D8B4D30E-D047-4613-9859-365AD22CFC4F

References

• Seguenza, G. 1873: Recirche Paleontologiche intorno ai Cirripedi terziari della provincia de Messina. Con appendici intorno ai Cirripedi viventi nel Mediterraneo e sui fossili terziari dell'Italia Meridionale Parte I Balanidi e Verrucidi (1873). Atti della Accademia Pontaniana 10: 266-366. Reference page.  [See p. 55, original description as Pyrgoma multicostatum; see p. 57, as Pyrgoma multicostatum latum, junior synonym]

• Bałuk, W. & Radwanski, A. 1967. Miocene cirripeds domiciled in corals. Acta palaeontologica Polonica, 12(4): 457–521. article pdfReference page.  [See p. 484, as Creusia multicostata, generic re-assignment]
• Gale, A.S., Rosso, A. & Vertino, A. 2021. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) and a review of the history of Mediterranean Cainozoic cirripedes. Cainozoic Research 21(1)ː 3–73. Reference page.  [See p. 31, discussion, lectotype designation]
• 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. 59]
• Ross, A. & Newman, W.A. 1973. Revision of coral-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia: Balanidae). Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 17: 137-174. Reference page.  [See p. 167, as junior synonym of Ceratoconcha rangi rangi, inferred generic re-assignment