Calanticidae Zevina 1978

Dataset
A range extension of a deep-sea barnacle of the genus Aurivillialepas (Cirripedia, Scalpellomorpha), a Macaronesian and amphitropical refugial genus having Mesozoic affinities: Rank
FAMILY

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Arthropoda: class
Maxillopoda: order
Pedunculata: family
Calanticidae

discussion

Remarks. Originally, most of the species comprising these four genera were assigned to Scillaelepas s. l. and while new species have since been attributed to Scillaelepas s. s. and Aurivillialepas, there has been no indication they do not form a natural group. Therefore, we recognized them as such. Nonetheless, while the calanticids already consists of two very large, one moderate and three small subfamilies, all but the Pollicipedinae and the new subfamily are in need of thorough revisions. This is especially true of the Calanticinae since what is now known of thoracican genetics (Herrera et al. 2015), the type species, Calantica villosa (Leach, 1824) is among the few species rooting the only wholly scalpellomorph clade. This can be best appreciated when the unsupported nodes of their “ maximum clade credibility ultrametric timescaled tree ” are collapsed. Unfortunately, to date but a few calanticids and no scillaelepadines have been sequenced.

Name

Homonyms: Calanticidae Zevina 1978; Calanticidae