Metaverruca
Taxonavigation
| Taxonavigation: Verrucomorpha |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Verrucidae
Subfamilia: Priscoverrucinae
Genus: Metaverruca
Species (17):
M. aequalis –
M. cornuta –
M. corrugata –
M. defayeae –
M. dilatata –
†M. euganea –
M. lepista –
M. macani –
M. maclaughlinae –
M. norfolkensis –
M. pacifica –
M. plicata –
M. reunioni –
M. sensibilis –
M. seriola –
M. trisulcata –
M. zanclea
Name
- Metaverruca Pilsbry, 1916: 21
- Geological range: upper Eocene to Recent
- Type species: Verruca coraliophila Pilsbry, 1916: 21, original designation (junior synonym of Verruca recta Aurivillius, 1898), itself a junior synonym of Verruca zanclea Seguenza, 1873
- ZooBank: 4A055DB4-3C58-46D4-AE48-21840DB0E1B7
References
- 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. 21, original description]
- Aurivillius, C.W.S. 1898: Cirrhipedes nouveaux provenant des campagnes scientifiques de SAS le Prince de Monaco. Bulletin de la Societe zoologique de France, 23: 189–198. [In French]
BHL Reference page. [See p. 195] - Gale, A.S. 2014. Origin and phylogeny of verrucomorph barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(9): 753–789. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.954409 Reference page. [See p. 28, assignment to Proverrucinae]
- Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene-Early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean, Part I. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 151–188. PDF Reference page. [See p. 167, discussion, species comparisons]
- 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. 18, synonymy] - Gale, A.S. & Sadorf, E. 2025. Pliocene distribution of the cirripede Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776) and revised definitions of the verrucid genera Verruca, Metaverruca and Priscoverruca (Thoracica, Crustacea). Acta Geologica Polonica 75(1): e39. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2024.152661 Reference page. [See p. 14, discussion, list of species]
- Young, P. S. 1998. Cirripedia (Crustacea) from the "Campagne Bioazores" in the Azores region, including a generic revision of the Verrucidae. Zoosystema, 20(1): 32-91. Full article (PDF) Reference page. [See p. 54, synonymy of type species]