Dianajonesia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Scalpellomorpha
Family: Poecilasmatidae
Genus: Dianajonesia
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. 1 2 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.


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