Verruca (crustacean)
| Verruca | |
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| Verruca stroemia, Northern Ireland | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Order: | Verrucomorpha |
| Family: | Verrucidae |
| Genus: | Verruca Schumacher, 1817 |
Verruca is a genus of asymmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Verrucidae. There are about 20 described species in Verruca, around half of them extinct.[1][2][3]
Species[edit]
These species belong to the genus Verruca:
- Verruca cookei Pilsbry, 1928
- Verruca gibbosa Hoek, 1883
- Verruca jago Buckeridge, 1997
- Verruca laevigata (Sowerby, 1827)
- Verruca minuta Young, 2000
- Verruca mitra Hoek, 1907
- Verruca scrippsae Zullo, 1964
- Verruca sewelli Stubbings, 1936
- Verruca spengleri Darwin, 1854
- Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776) (wart barnacle)
- Verruca vertica
- † Verruca alaskana Pilsbry, 1943
- † Verruca gailgoedertae Perreault & Buckeridge, 2019
- † Verruca koikei Tanaka et al. in Koike et al., 2006
- † Verruca prisca Bosquet, 1854
- † Verruca punica Buckeridge & Jagt, 2008
- † Verruca pusilla Bosquet, 1857
- † Verruca sorrellae Perreault & Buckeridge, 2019
- † Verruca steenstrupi Brünnich Nielsen, 1912
- † Verruca tasmanica Buckeridge, 1983
- † Verruca veneta Carriol & Diemi, 2005
- † Verruca withersi Kruizinga, 1939
References[edit]
- ^ "Verruca". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- ^ "World Register of Marine Species, genus Verruca". Retrieved 2021-08-31.
- ^ Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; et al. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 789–846. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160. hdl:11250/2990967.
External links[edit]
Media related to Verruca at Wikimedia Commons
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