Dianajonesia Explained

Dianajonesia is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Poecilasmatidae. The taxon is a replacement name for the previously used Temnaspis, which by precedence is now accorded to a genus of megalopodid beetles. The type species of the genus is D. fissum, originally described by Charles Darwin as Poecilasma fissa. The genus contains the following species:^[1]

• Dianajonesia amygdalum (Aurivilius, 1894)
• Dianajonesia bathynomi (Annandale, 1906)
• Dianajonesia excavatum (Hoek, 1907)
• Dianajonesia fissum (Darwin, 1851)
• Dianajonesia kilepoae (Zevina, 1968)
• Dianajonesia lenticula (Aurivilius, 1894)
• Dianajonesia minutum (Gruvel, 1902)
• Dianajonesia tridens (Aurivilius, 1894)
• Dianajonesia vagans (Aurivilius, 1894)

Notes and References

1. Chan, Benny K.K. . 2017 . Temnaspis Fischer, 1884 . 203970 . 19 May 2017.