Aurivillialepas
- 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
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Maxillopoda
- order
- Pedunculata
- family
- Calanticidae
- genus
- Aurivillialepas
Aurivillialepas
Key to the genus Aurivillialepas based on external morphology
(capitulum composed of 14 plates including one subrostrum)
1. Rostrolatus acute, apical angle 60–70°. Peduncle long and narrow............................................... 2
- Rostrolatus obtuse, apical angle approximately 90°. Peduncle quite wide and short.................................. 3
2. Carina continuous with carinal margins of tergum; carina narrow in lateral aspect, not reaching the apex of median latus.................................................................................. A. falcata (Aurivillius, 1898)
- Carina apex free of carinal margin of tergum; carina wide in lateral aspect, reaching the apex of median latus........................................................................................... A. arnaudi (Newman, 1980)
3. Rostrolatus overlapping carinolatus....................................................................... 4
- Rostrolatus separated from carinolatus............................................. A. bocquetae (Newman, 1980)
4. Carina slightly curved, scutum about 1.5 times higher than wide, its apex strongly curved toward tergum................................................................................................ A. rhabdota (Young, 1999)
- Carina curved, scutum high as wide, its apex slightly curved toward tergum............... A. calycula (Aurivillius, 1898)
Name
- Homonyms
- Aurivillialepas