Verruca
Verruca stroemia, Northern Ireland
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

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

  1. "Verruca". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  2. "World Register of Marine Species, genus Verruca". Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  3. 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.
  • Media related to Verruca at Wikimedia Commons


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