Taxonavigation

Familia: Lepadidae
Genus: Lepas
Species: Lepas hillii

Name

• Lepas hillii (Leach, 1818): 413
  • Original genus: Pentalasmis
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Pliocene (Calabrian) Italy to Recent cosmopolitan
  • Type locality:
  • Typus:
  • ZooBank: 8D2A5CAA-7952-4A19-99A4-BC2D469BCA3B

References

• Leach, W.E. 1818. Appendix No. IV. A general Notice of the Animals taken by Mr. John Cranch, during the Expedition to find the Source of the River Zaire. Pp. 407–419 In Tuckey & Smith. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816. J. Murray: London. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 413, original description as Pentalasmis hillii]

• Darwin, C. 1852. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 1 The Lepadidae or Pedunculated Cirrepedes. Ray Society. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 77, as Lepas hillii, generic re-assignment, synonymy, extensive re-description]