Minyaspis Van & Dekelboum, 2011, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Van, Robert J.
name: Dekelboum, Allen M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Maxillopoda
Pedunculata
Oxynaspididae
Minyaspis

description: Minyaspis gen. nov.
Type species. Minyaspis amylaneae sp. nov.
Type locality. Fiji Is, Great Astrolabe Reef, NE of Dravuni I., 18° 44.08’ S, 178° 32.63’ E, depth: 14 m.
Diagnosis. Scutum thin, fragile, not calcified along carinal and tergal margins, resulting in incomplete coverage of capitulum. Tergum sometimes incompletely calcified. Scutum with pronounced adductor muscle pit. Basal end of carina commonly forked, not rounded or truncate.
Etymology. Miny - from the Greek, minys, small, and -aspis, a shield.
Remarks. The species placed within this genus are generally defined by partially calcified capitular plates. Although one might consider this reduction in calcification to be a trait commonly found in cirripeds in obligate commensal relationships in which they are closely associated with host taxa tissues (e.g. sponge-inhabiting barnacles, see Kolbasov 1993; Van Syoc and Newman 2010), we contend that in the case of oxynaspidids the reduction of calcification is a synapomorphy of the genus Minyaspis sp. nov. Independent data sets, such as those derived from DNA sequences, could test this hypothesis. To date, however, we have not been able to obtain suitable tissues for DNA extraction from the great bulk of oxynaspidid species. Previously described species of Oxynaspis, newly referred to the genus Minyaspis, ordered alphabetically by species, with the known hosts of type specimens and type localities, are listed below.
Minyaspis acapitula (Foster and Buckeridge, 1995: 351–353); Réunion; 120 m; host not mentioned
Minyaspis aurivillii (Stebbing, 1900: 675, pl. 74c); New Britain, Papua New Guinea; 40 fathoms [73 m.]; antipatharian
Minyaspis bocki (Nilsson-Cantell, 1921: 228–230); Goto Islands, Kyushu, Japan; 230 m; “Hornkorallen”
Minyaspis faroni (Totton, 1940: 483–486); Red Sea; Antipathes lentispina
Minyaspis floridana (Pilsbry, 1953: 15–16); off Palm Beach, Florida; 50–60 fathoms [91– 110 m.]; antipatharian
Minyaspis granti (Totton, 1940: 480–482); 80 miles [133 km] south of Penang, Malaysia; antipatharian
Minyaspis michi (Zevina, 1983: 1636 –1637); Nazca Ridge; 25°45’ S, 85°22’ W; 240– 210 m; host not mentioned
Minyaspis patens (Aurivillius, 1892: 38, pl. III, Figs 1, 2); West Indies, Anguilla; Antipathes
Minyaspis pulchra (Nilsson-Cantell, 1934: 46–54); 10°27’46” S, 126°4’30” E [south of Timor Island, Indonesia]; “from telegraph cable”, no host mentioned in text, however the holotype is illustrated (Nilsson-Cantell, 1934: 48, Fig. 1 a) attached to what appears to be an antipatharian axis
Minyaspis reducens (Foster, 1982: 221–223); Fung Head, Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong; 12 m; Antipathella japonica and Cirrhipathes anguina
Minyaspis sinensis (Ren, 1983: 85–86, Fig. 2); East China Sea; 29°30’ N, 126°00’ E; 96 m; antipatharian
Minyaspis terranovae (Totton, 1923: 116–118); New Zealand; 189 m; Antipathes lilliei
description: Published as part of Van, Robert J. & Dekelboum, Allen M., 2011, Oxynaspididae (Crustacea, Cirripedia): phylogenetics and evolutionary ecology, with descriptions of three new genera and six new species, pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 3103 on pages 15-16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279183