Taxonavigation

Familia: Chthamalidae
Subfamilia: Chthamalinae
Genus: Chthamalus
Species: Chthamalus stellatus

Name

• Chthamalus stellatus (Poli, 1791): 29
  • Original genus: Lepas
  • Geological age: Pliocene to Recent
  • Type locality: Probably Bay of Naples
  • Typus: BMNH Original types unknown
  • Distribution: Littoral, British Isles, Atlantic coast of Europe, Africa to Cape Verde; Mediterranean and Black Seas; other records unverified; sympatric with Chthamalus montagui, occupying middle littoral levels; reported from Pliocene of Italy (de Alessandri, 1894)
  • ZooBank: 67A9DB49-1B7B-4058-867A-D77D762B2CC1

Synonyms

• Chthamalus darwini Bosquet, 1857: 1
  • Contamination from modern household trash; see Jagt & Carriol, 2008)
  • ZooBank: 0C6AFA5E-CE5E-4249-AA4A-5042A2E5C890
• Chthamalus stellatus communis Darwin, 1854: 455
  • Equivalent in Darwin to nominate subspecies; not approved by ICZN
  • ZooBank: E55FF56D-6BA1-4DF4-AA83-975991A31621

References

• Poli, G.X. 1791. Testacea utriusque Siciliae, enormque historia et anatome, tabulis aenis illustrata. Parmae. 1: 1–38. [In Latin] BHLReference page.  [See p. 29, as Lepas stellata]

• de Alessandri, G. 1894: Contribuzione allo studio dei Cirripedi fossili d'Italia. Bolletino della Societa Geologica Italiana, 13: 234–314. GoogleBooks Reference page. 
• Bosquet, J.A.H. 1857. Notice sur quelques Cirripèdes récemment découverts dans le Terrain Crétacé du Duché de Limbourg. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen uitgegeven door de Hollandsche Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen te Haarlem, 2(13): 1–36. 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. 455, as Chthamalus stellatus communis]
• Jagt, J.W.M. & Carriol, R-P. 2008: The allegedly Late Cretaceous Chthamalus darwini Bosquet, 1857: a junior synonym of extant Chthamalus stellatus (Poli, 1791) (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha, Chthamalidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 249(1): 87–92. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0249-0087 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. 42]
• 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. 302, as Chthamalus stellatus stellatus]
• Poltarukha, O.P. 2006: Identification Atlas of the Superfamily Chthamaloidea Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) in the World Ocean. KMK Scientific Press, Ltd., Moscow. ISBN 5-87317-278-1. [In Russian] Reference page.  [See p. 167] [locality list, re-description, discussion]
• Rosell, N.C. 1972. Some barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) from Puerto Galera found in the vicinity of the U. P. Marine Biological Laboratory. Natural and applied science bulletin, 24(4): 143–285. Reference page.  [See p. 172]
• Southward, A.J. 1976: On the taxonomic status and distribution of Chthamalus stellatus (Cirripedia) in the North-East Atlantic region; with a key to the common intertidal Barnacles of Britain. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56(4): 1007-1028. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315400021044Reference page.