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CAAB Code:	27 559001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Arossella lynnae   Ross, 2000
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups Family: 27 559 Pyrgomatidae (coral barnacles) - show full list Common Name: [a coral barnacle] Organism Type: a coral barnacle Synonyms: Rossia projectum Arossella projectum (sensu Anderson, 1992 & Anderson, 1993) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 27 559901     Arossella spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is the type species of the monotypic genus Arossella. See Ross (2000).
Scientific Name Notes:	According to Ross (2000), the Australian material Anderson (1992) identified as Pyrgoma projectum Nillson-Cantell, 1938, and used as the basis of the the genus Rossia (preoccupied, replaced by Arossella Anderson, 1993), was not that species. Ross (2000) described the material as a new species, A. lynnae, which becomes the type species of this genus. The true Pyrgoma projectum Nillson-Cantell, 1938 is a member of Pyrgoma according to Ross (2000).
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:882297 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-03-04 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Anderson, D.T., 1992. Structure, function and phylogeny of coral-inhabiting barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanoidea)., Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society, Vol. 106: 277-339.
Scientific Name verified against:	Ross, A., 2000. Arossella Anderson, 1993: What is the type species (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha)?, Sessile Organisms, Vol. 16(2): 15-20.