Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Maxillopoda > Subclass Thecostraca > Infraclass Cirripedia > Superorder Thoracica > Order Sessilia > Suborder Balanomorpha > Superfamily Balanoidea > Family Archaeobalanidae > Subfamily Acastinae > Genus Acasta

Acasta cyathus Darwin, 1854

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acasta*	Leach, 1817	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: sponge barnacle

Literature

original description	Darwin, C.R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-Class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidae (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc., etc., etc. 1-684, plates 1-30. The Ray Society, London.
basis of record	Wirtz, P.; Araújo, R.; Southward, A.J. (2006). Cirripedia of Madeira. Helgoland Marine Research, 60(3): 207-212
additional source	Van Syoc, R.J. and R. Winther. 1999. Sponge-inhabiting barnacles of the Americas: a new species of Acasta (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae), first record from the eastern Pacific, including discussion of the evolution of cirral morphology. Crustaceana 72(5): 467-486.
additional source	Gittings, S. R. 2009. Cirripedia (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 827–836 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Barnacle Collection
GBIF

Citation

Chan, Benny K.K. (2014). Acasta cyathus Darwin, 1854. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370509