Dianajonesia

Dianajonesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Scalpellomorpha
Family: Poecilasmatidae
Genus:
Koçak & Kemal, 2008[1]

Dianajonesia is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Poecilasmatidae. The taxon is a replacement name for the previously used Temnaspis, which by precedence is now accorded to a genus of megalopodid beetles.[1] The type species of the genus is D. fissum, originally described by Charles Darwin as Poecilasma fissa. The genus contains the following species:[2]

  • Dianajonesia amygdalum (Aurivilius, 1894)
  • Dianajonesia bathynomi (Annandale, 1906)
  • Dianajonesia excavatum (Hoek, 1907)
  • Dianajonesia fissum (Darwin, 1851)
  • Dianajonesia kilepoae (Zevina, 1968)
  • Dianajonesia lenticula (Aurivilius, 1894)
  • Dianajonesia minutum (Gruvel, 1902)
  • Dianajonesia tridens (Aurivilius, 1894)
  • Dianajonesia vagans (Aurivilius, 1894)

References

  1. ^ a b Koçak, A.O.; Kemal, M. (2008). "Notes on the nomenclature of some genus group names in Arthropoda". Miscellaneous Papers of the Center for Entomological Studies Ankara. 138.
  2. ^ Chan, Benny K.K. (2017). "Temnaspis Fischer, 1884". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 May 2017.