Calantica darwini

Calantica darwini
Calantica darwini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Infraclass: Cirripedia
Order: Pedunculata
Family: Calanticidae
Genus: Calantica
Species: C. darwini
Binomial name
Calantica darwini
D. S. Jones & A. M. Hosie, 2009

Calantica darwini is a species of barnacle.

It was described in 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. The specific epithet darwini was therefore chosen to commemorate Darwin who worked extensively on barnacles;[1] ten other new species described by scientists from the Western Australian Museum were also named in honour of Darwin.[2] The species is currently only known from the tropical waters in the northwestern part of Western Australia, where it lives attached to gorgonians.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Diana S. Jones & Andrew M. Hosie (2009). "A new species of Calantica from Western Australian waters (Thoracica: Scalpellomorpha: Calanticidae)" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 239–246. http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/RecWAMuseum_25%283%29_2009_239to246_JONESetal.pdf. 
  2. ^ "Eleven new species named in honour of Charles Darwin". Western Australian Museum. November 23, 2009. http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/about/latest-news/eleven-new-species-named-honour-charles-darwin. Retrieved November 10, 2010. 


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