Armatobalanus allium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: Armatobalanus
Speciesː Armatobalanus allium
Subspecies (2)ː A. a. allium – A. a. truncatus

Name

• Armatobalanus allium (Darwin, 1854): 281
  • Original genus: Balanus
  • Symbiontː commensal on Poritidae
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Miocene (Burdigalian) to middle Pleistocene, Japan; living, Great Barrier Reef to Bay of Bengal, Sri Lanka
  • Type locality: Raine's Inlet, Great Barrier Reef, Australia; type host Porites
  • Types: Stutchbury Museum
  • ZooBank: 24C7E547-13B0-4D3F-82E9-BE68BC5A2BF7

Synonymy

• Acasta madreporicola Broch, 1922ː 333
  • Type localityː off Jolo, 25 fathoms, in madreporian coral
  • Synonymized in Utinomi, 1949
  • ZooBank: 74BF1F12-BCF6-4E16-9C51-3BEE1BBBD40A
• Balanus arcuatus Hoek, 1913: 210
  • Type localityː Banda, Philippines, 9-36 m
  • Synonymized in Utinomi, 1949
  • ZooBank: FFE53D86-ACEF-4FBB-A881-3A52C50DA8B1

References

• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 281, original description as Balanus allium]

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• Broch, H. 1922: Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-6. X. Studies on Pacific cirripeds. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjøbenhavn, 73: 215–358. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 333, as Acasta madreporicola]
• Hoek, P.P.C. 1913: The Cirripedia of the Siboga Expedition. B. Siboga Expeditie Monogr. XXXIb, i-xxv: 129–275. BHLReference page.  [See p. 210, as Balanus arcuatus]
• Karasawa, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2025. Cirripedes from the Miocene Mizunami Group, central Japan, with the description of a new species of Amphibalanus Pitombo from the Iwamura Group, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 52(1): 55––99. DOI: 10.50897/bmfm.52.1_55. Reference page.  [See p. 65, fossil occurrence]
• Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 49, as Armatobalanus (Armatobalanus) allium]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1916. The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page.  [See p. 228, as Balanus (Armatobalanus) allium]
• Zullo, V.A. 1963. A review of the subgenus Armatobalanus (Cirripedia: Thoracica) with a description of a new species from the California coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 6(70): 587-594. DOI: 10.1080/00222936308651403 Reference page.  [See p. 588, discussion]
• Zullo, V.A. 1967. On the identity of some specimens assigned by Darwin, 1854, to Balanus allium Darwin (Cirripedia, Thoracica). Crustaceana 13(1): 126–128. JSTOR Reference page.