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Acasta cyathus Darwin, 1854 
AphiaID: 370509

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Thecostraca (Subclass) > Cirripedia (Infraclass) > Thoracica (Superorder) > Sessilia (Order) > Balanomorpha (Suborder) > Balanoidea (Superfamily) > Archaeobalanidae (Family) > Acastinae (Subfamily) > Acasta (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Acasta Leach, 1817
Sources  original description: Darwin, C.R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-Class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidae (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc., etc., etc. 1-684, plates 1-30. The Ray Society, London. [details]

basis of record: Wirtz, P.; Araújo, R.; Southward, A.J. (2006). Cirripedia of Madeira. Helgoland Marine Research, 60(3): 207-212 [details]

additional source: Gittings, S. R. 2009. Cirripedia (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 827–836 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: Van Syoc, R.J. and R. Winther. 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. [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Madeiran Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Holotype , locality Madeira [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Barnacle Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370509
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-11-20 13:17:46Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2010-10-22 11:02:18Z  checked  Chan, Benny K.K.
  
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  Citation: Chan, Benny K.K. (2013). Acasta cyathus Darwin, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370509 on 2013-05-24
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