Taxonavigation

Familia: Pyrgomatidae
Subfamilia: Pyrgomatinae
Tribus: Pyrgomatini
Genus: Savignium
Species: Savignium crenatum

Name

• Savignium crenatum (Sowerby, 1823): no pagination
  • Original genus: Pyrgoma
  • Symbiont: Obligate commensal on scleractinian corals, Cyphastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Merulina, Montastrea, Platygyra, Tridacophyllia
  • Type locality: Singapore, Tridacophyllia lactuca type host, selected by Ross & Newman, 1973: 159
  • Typus:
  • Distribution: Indo-West Pacific Ocean; Indian Ocean; Australia, New Zealand
  • ZooBank:

References

• Sowerby, G.B. 1823. The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in Conchology and Geology, with 264 original plates by James Sowerby, continued by J. de C. Sowerby, (18): 2 vol., (not paginated in original, added later) Reference page.  [See for original description, as Pyrgoma crenatum, no pagination]

• Achituv, Y. 2004. Coral-inhabiting barnacles (Ciripedia: Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatinae) from the Kermadec Islands and Niue Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of marine and freshwater research, 38(1): 43–49. DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2004.9517216 pdf Reference page.  [See p. 44, discussion]

• Annandale, N. 1924: Cirripeds associated with Indian corals of the families Astraeidae and Fungidae. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 8(1): 61–68. Reference page.  [See p. 66, junior synonym]

• Jones, D.S. & Hosie, A.M. 2016. A checklist of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of Singapore and neighbouring waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement 34 (Part I): 241–311. Full article (PDF) Reference page.  [See p. 283, synonymy, discussion, distribution]

• Kolosváry, G. von 1951. A new species of barnacle. Acta Biologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2(1–3): 287–289. Reference page.  [See p. 287, junior synonym]

• Ross, A.; Newman, W.A. 1973: Revision of coral-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia: Balanidae). Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 17: 137-174. BHLReference page.  [See p. 159, list of accepted species, disignation of type locality and host]