Tesseropora

Tesseropora Temporal range: Oligocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Thecostraca
Subclass:	Cirripedia
Order:	Balanomorpha
Family:	Tetraclitidae
Genus:	Tesseropora Pilsbry, 1916

Tesseropora is a genus of barnacles in the family Tetraclitidae found around the world.[1] Fossils have been found dating to the Oligocene epoch, and there are several extinct species included in the genus. The genus is characterized by having four shell wall plates and a single row of pores.[2]

Species

• Tesseropora alba Ren & Liu, 1979
• Tesseropora arnoldi Young, 1998
• Tesseropora atlantica Newman & Ross, 1976
• †Tesseropora isseli (de Alessandri, 1895)
• Tesseropora pacifica (Pilsbry, 1928)
• Tesseropora rapax Jones, 1993
• Tesseropora rosea (Krauss, 1848)
• Tesseropora wireni (Nilsson-Cantell, 1921)

References

1. "Tesseropora Pilsbry, 1916". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
2. Hayashi, Ryota; Chan, Benny K. K. (2015). "New Records of the Tetraclitid Barnacle Tesseropora alba (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Tetraclitoidea) in the Pacific Waters of Taiwan and Okinawa". Species Diversity. 20 (2): 183–189. doi:10.12782/sd.20.2.183. ISSN 1342-1670.

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