Alepas coronata (English spelling)

Japanese: Alepas coronata(英語表記)Alepascoronata
Alepas coronata (English spelling)

…These specimens are still carefully preserved in the British Museum. He discovered a maggot-like parasite in the mantle cavity of the West Indies mussel Alepas coronata , and after some research he named it Proteolepas bivincta . He created the order Apoda within the subclass Cirripedia for its strange characteristics, such as the presence of mouthparts but no thoracic legs, and placed it in this order. It has not been found again since then. However, in recent years, French scientist Bocquet-Verdrine (1972) has conducted detailed research on Crinoniscus equitans , which infests the Mediterranean and northern Atlantic barnacle Balanus perforatus , which is about 3 cm in diameter, and found that the morphology of this parasite at a certain stage in its life cycle is exactly the same as that of the Apoda. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Alepas coronata" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…大英博物館にはそれらの標本が今もたいせつに保存されている。彼は西インド諸島産のエボシガイの1種Alepas coronataの外套腔に寄生していたうじ虫状の寄生虫を見つけ,研究の結果Proteolepas bivinctaと命名,口器はあるが,胸脚がまったくないなど,奇異な特徴が見られるとして,蔓脚亜綱中にとくに無脚目を創設してこれに属させたが,それ以来再度発見されなかった。しかし,近年,フランスのボケ・ベルドリーヌBocquet‐Verdrine(1972)は地中海,北部大西洋産の直径3cmくらいのフジツボ,Balanus perforatusに寄生しているCrinoniscus equitansを詳しく研究した結果,この寄生虫の生活史上のある時期の形態が無脚類とされたものにまったくよく一致することを突き止めた。…

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