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Issue: Vol. 1118 No. 1: 30 Jan. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-01-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1118.1.3
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 77
PDF downloaded: 2

A new genus and species of high intertidal barnacle (Cirripedia, Tetraclitidae) from Baja California Sur, México

Departamento de Biología Marina, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, Carretera al sur Km. 5.5, Apdo. Postal 19-B, C.P. 23080. La Paz, B.C.S. Mexico Departamento de Plancton. Av. Instituto Politecnico National S/n. ol. Playa Palo de Santa Rita, Apdo. Post 592. C.P. 23096, La Paz, B.C.S.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology, California Academy of Science, 875 Howard St., San Francisco CA 94103 U.S.A.
Crustacea Tetraclitidae Lissaclita melaniae gen. et sp. nov. taxonomy Gulf of California barnacles

Abstract

A new genus and species, Lissaclita melaniae (Tetraclitidae), is described from the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Lissaclita has a secondarily divided single row of parietal tubes without septa, lack of tubes in the radii, diametric shell growth, and a membranous basis. This combination of characters does not agree with any currently described subfamily within the Tetraclitidae. Lacking a detailed phylogenetic analysis of the entire family, we place the new genus in the Tetraclitidae without assigning it to a subfamily.

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