Taxonavigation

Familia: Coronulidae
Subfamilia: Coronulinae
Genus: Cetopirus
Species: Cetopirus complanatus

Name

• Cetopirus complanatus Morch, 1853: 67
  • Symbiont: Obligate commensal on whale Eubalaena glacialis
  • Type locality: North Atlantic Ocean, between Newfoundland and Iceland, on right whale
  • Types: Lectotype figured in Chemnitz, 1785, pl. 99, fig. 845, 846; designated by Tarasov & Zevina, 1957: 246
  • Distribution: Known from North Atlantic populations of Eubalaena glacialis, possibly extinct; North Pacific reports unconfirmed; known from Southern Hemisphere, on Eubalaena australis
  • ZooBank: D109B85A-009A-4CAF-B622-6522599E8047

References

• Mørch, O.A.L. 1853. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso D'Aguirra & Gadea, comes de Yoldi, regis Daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis Dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis Caroli Tertii eques. Fasciculus secundus. Acephala. Annulata Cirripedia. Echonodermata. [IV] + 76 pp. BHL [in Latin] Reference page.  [See p. 67, as Ceteopirus [sic] complanatus]

• Chemnitz, J.H. 1785. Neues systematisches Conchylien ­Cabinet 8: (i-xviii), 1­-372, pls.— Raspe, Nürn­berg. Reference page.  [See p. 325]
• Collareta, A., Marean, C.W., Jerardino, A. & Bosselaers, M. 2017. Cetopirus complanatus (Cirripedia: Coronulidae) from the late Middle Pleistocene human settlement of Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, South Africa). Zootaxa 4237(2): 393–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.12. Reference page. 
• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 415] (as Coronula balaenaris)
• Holthuis, L.B., Smeenk, C. & Laarman, F.J. 1998. The find of a whale barnacle, Cetopirus complanatus (Mörch, 1853), in 10th century deposits in the Netherlands. Zoologische verhandelingen 323(27): 349–363. Full article (PDF)Reference page. 
• 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. 45]
• Ross, A. & Frick, M.G. 2011. Nomenclatural emendations of the family-group names Cylindrolepadinae, Stomatolepadinae, Chelolepadinae, Cryptolepadinae, and Tubicinellinae of Ross & Frick, 2007—including current definitions of family-groups within the Coronuloidea (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha). Zootaxa 3106: 60–66. Preview Reference page.  [See p. 64]
• Tarasov, N.I.; Zevina, G.B. 1957: Fauna USSR. Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) of seas of USSR. Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk CCCP, (new series) 69: 1-268. Reference page.  [See p. 246, lectotype designation]