Acasta Leach, 1817

Carriol, René-Pierre, Cahuzac, Bruno & Lesport, Jean-François, 2011, New species of Acasta and Balanus (Balanoidea: Acastinae, Balaninae) from the Early Miocene (Burdigalian) of the Aquitaine Basin, France, Zootaxa 3109, pp. 60-68 : 63

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.201918
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6192584
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Type species. Lepas spongites Poli, 1791 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Basis deeply cup shaped, rarely flat, with circular margin, often bearing small teeth; internal surface smooth, without six radial ribs. Wall plates usually with longitudinal, internal ribs; in some species, wall plates separated by splits or windows covered by delicate membrane. Carinolaterals developed normally. Scutum with or without radial striae. Cirral armature variable, segments of anterior ramus of cirrus IV bearing hooks, or thorns, or lacking either (after Kolbasov 1993).

References

Kolbasov, G. A. (1993) Revision of the genus Acasta Leach (Cirripedia: Balanoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109, 395 - 427.

Leach, W. E. (1817) Distribution systematique de la classe des Cirripedes. Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle elementaire, 85, 67 - 69.

Poli, G. S. (1791 - 1795) Testacea Utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata a Iosepho Xaverio Poli francisci I. P. F. A. Siciliarum et Hierusalem regis instutore. 2: 75 - 264., Parma, Regio.