Chirona evermanni

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: Chirona
Species: Chirona evermanni

Name

• Chirona evermanni (Pilsbry, 1907): 203
  • Original genus: Balanus
  • Stratigraphic and geographic range: Early Miocene (Burdigalian) to Recent; Japan to Bering Sea
  • Type locality: Albatross station 4239, junction of Clarence Strait and Belum Canal, Alaska, 206 fathoms
  • Typus: syntypes USNM 32404, 32425,
  • ZooBank: 283EB70D-5601-4673-9441-52F557A3FA5C

Synonymy

• Balanus hoekianus Pilsbry, 1911: 77
  • Synonymized in Tarasov & Zevina, 1957ː 230
  • Type localityː Albatross station 4778, Bering Sea, 52°12'N, 179°52'E, 43 fathoms
  • Typusː Type USNM 38666
  • ZooBank: E54BBB2B-8959-48F4-A990-597EE0B61245

References

• Pilsbry, H.A. 1907: Cirripedia from the Pacific Coast of North America. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 26: 193–204. BHLReference page.  [See p. 203, original description as Balanus evermanni]

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• Hoek, P.P.C. 1913: The Cirripedia of the Siboga Expedition. B. Siboga Expeditie Monogr. XXXIb, i-xxv: 129–275. BHLReference page.  [See p. 151 and p. 246, generic re-assignment as Hexelasma hoekianum]
• 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. 66, discussion, Japanese fossil record]
• 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. 50, as Chirona (Chirona) evermanni]
• Pilsbry, H.A. 1911. Barnacles of Japan and Bering Sea. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 29: 61–84. BHLReference page.  [See p. 76 as Balanus evermanni, p. 77 a Balanus hoekianus]
• 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. 201, as Balanus (Metabalanus) hoekianus, subgeneric re-assignment of junior synonym; see p. 210, as Balanus (Chirona) evermanni]
• Tarasov, N.I. & Zevina, G.B. 1957: Fauna USSR. Barnacles (Cirripedia Thoracica) of seas of USSR. Zoological Institute, Akademia Nauk CCCP, (new series) 69: 1-268. Reference page.  [See p. 230, synonymy, extensive re-description]