Austrobalanidae Newman and Ross 1976 ...

• Main Authors: Buckeridge, John S., Newman, William A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Maxillopoda; Sessilia; Austrobalanidae; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6196921; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6196921

Family Austrobalanidae Newman and Ross, 1976 stat. nov. Diagnosis: Small, six or four-plated tetraclitoids with solid parietes with or without chitinous laminae or stringers, intermediate figures or “inflected basal margins”1; radii solid; basis membranous. Distribution and age: Littoral low to moderate energy often brackish water environments. Eocene to Recent: † Antarctica, Australia, † New Zealand (Austrobalanus, Epopella and/or Austrominius); Oligocene, † New Zealand (Protelminius); Miocene, †Victoria, Australia (Matellionius); Recent, southern South America (Elminius) and New South Wales, Australia (Hexaminius); inadvertently introduced into Europe during the 1940s and temporarily to South Africa (Austrominius). († denotes that taxon is extinct in this region). Remarks: A key reason why Elminius s.l. was placed within the archaeobalanids by Newman and Ross (1976) was the presence of a deeply cleft labrum. This feature characterizes some of the earliest balanoids, such as Notobalanus vestitus (Darwin, ... : Published as part of Buckeridge, John S. & Newman, William A., 2010, A review of the subfamily Eliminiinae (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Austrobalanidae), including a new genus, Protelminius nov., from the Oligocene of New Zealand, pp. 39-54 in Zootaxa 2349 on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.275597 ...