Brachylepas

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Thecostraca
Subclassis: Cirripedia
Superordo: Thoracica
Ordo: Sessilia
Subordo: Brachylepadomorpha

Familia: Brachylepadidae
Genus: †Brachylepas
Species (6): B. americanum – B. angulosa – B. guascoi – B. hantonensis – B. naissanti – B. thieli –
Source(s) of checklist:
based on list in Jagt, 2007: 254
Name

Brachylepas Woodward, 1901: 321
Original status: valid genus
Gender: [neuter]
Type species: Pyrgoma cretacea Woodward, 1865, by original designation, accepted as Emarginula naissanti Hebert, 1855
ZooBank: 5BF47AAC-E38A-4EB0-97CE-DAA0B885F083

References

Woodward, H. 1901. On Pyrgoma cretacea, a Cirripede from the Upper Chalk of Norwich and Margate. Geological magazine 8(4): 145–152, 250, 528. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800178392 BHL Reference page. [See p. 150, original description]

Jagt, J.W.M. 2007. A Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) record of the brachylepadid cirripede genus Pycnolepas from northeast Belgium. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 245(2): 253–261. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2007/0245-0253 Reference page.
Woodward, H. 1865. First report on the structure and classification of the fossil Crustacea. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 35th Meeting, Birmingham: 320–322. BHL Reference page. [See p. 321]

Links

BHL bibliography
Brachylepas – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Brachylepas.
ION
Brachylepas in the World Register of Marine Species