Taxonavigation

Familia: Chionelasmatidae
Genus: Chionelasmus
Species: Chionelasmus darwini
Subspecies: C. d. cantelli – C. d. darwini –

Name

• Chionelasmus darwini (Pilsbry, 1907: 188)
  • Original genus: Catophragmus
  • Original status: valid species
  • Geological range: Eocene; upper Pliocene to Recent
  • Type locality: Albatross station 3908, near Kauai Island, 228-235 fathoms
  • Typus: USNM 32407 (hard parts), 32408 (soft parts) (missing)
  • Distribution: Fossil; Eocene, New Zealand; Plio-Pleistocene, Mascarene Plateau: Living; Western Indian Ocean, south-western to northern Pacific Ocean: Rodriguez Island (9.5 miles N, 4.0 miles W of Port Mathurin), western Indian Ocean, 527 m; Kermadec Islands, south-west Pacific Ocean (30°34'S, 178°30'W), 501 m; Hawaiian Islands, north Pacific Ocean, 417-430 m.; New Caledonia, 425-510 m, the Loyalty Islands, 500-515 m and Norfolk Ridge, 260-650 m.
  • ZooBank: A732AF8F-2502-4BFA-8EA3-9B7FE99357C7

References

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: Hawaiian Cirripedia. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 26: 181–190. BHLReference page.  [See p. 188, as Catophragmus darwini]

• Buckeridge, J.S. 1983: Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey paleontological bulletin, (50) Reference page.  [See p. 61, fossil New Zealand occurrence]
• Gale, A.S. 2020. Bathyal Pliocene-Early Pleistocene cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Rodrigues Ridge, Mascarene Plateau, Indian Ocean, Part I. Cainozoic Research, 20(2): 151–188. Reference page.  [See p. 156, Mascarene Plateau occurrence]
• Jones, D.S. 2000. Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica: Chionelasmatoidea and Pachylasmatoidea (Balanomorpha) of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands, with a review of all currently assigned taxa. In A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 21, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 184: 141–283. ISBN 2-85653-526-7 Reference page.  [See p. 153, discussion, distribution, subspecies]
• Newman, W.A.; Ross, E. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 40]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916: The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 335, as Catophragmus (Chionelasmus) darwini]