Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Thecostraca > Subclass Cirripedia > Infraclass Thoracica > Superorder Thoracicalcarea > Order Balanomorpha > Superfamily Balanoidea > Family Balanidae > Subfamily Acastinae > Genus Acasta

Acasta cyathus Darwin, 1854

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acasta*	Leach, 1817	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: sponge barnacle

Literature

original description	Darwin, C. (1854). A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia with Figures of All the Species. The Balanidae, (or Sessile Cirripedia); the Verricidae, etc., etc., etc. The Ray Society, London. i-viii + 1-684, pls. 1-30.
basis of record	Wirtz, P.; Araújo, R.; Southward, A. J. (2006). Cirripedia of Madeira. Helgoland Marine Research. 60(3): 207-212.
additional source	Gittings, S. R. 2009. Cirripedia (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 827–836 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Van Syoc, R.J. and R. Winther. 1999. Sponge-inhabiting barnacles of the Americas: a new species of Acasta (Cirripedia, Archaeobalanidae), first record from the eastern Pacific, including discussion of the evolution of cirral morphology. Crustaceana 72(5): 467-486.