Tortugaster

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: Rhizocephala

Familia: Peltogastridae
Genusː Tortugaster
Species (3)ː T. boschmai – T. discoidalis – T. fistulatus
Name

Tortugaster Reinhard, 1948ː 34
Type species:ː Tortugaster fistulatus Reinhard, 1948ː 34, OD
ZooBank: 2C9459C8-76D7-4DBD-96EC-3F81C060646A

References

Reinhard, E.G. 1948. Tortugaster fistulatus, n. gen., n. sp., a rhizocephalan parasite of Munidopsis robusta. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 15(1)ː 33–37. Reference page. [See p. 34, original description]

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 Open access Reference page. [See p. 38, context]
Høeg, J.T., Noever, C., Rees, D.J., Crandall, K. & Glenner, H. 2020. A new molecular phylogeny-based taxonomy of parasitic barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190: 632–653. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz140 Open access pdf Reference page. [See p. 641, discussion]

Links

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