Balanus spongicola

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

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

Familia: Balanidae
Subfamilia: Balaninae
Genus: Balanus
Species: Balanus spongicola
Subspecies (2): †B. s. pliocenicus – B. s. spongicola

Name

• Balanus spongicola Brown, 1844: 121
  • Original status: valid species
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Oligocene to Recent, Mediterranean; living, Atlantic Coast of Europe and Africa
  • Type locality: Devonshire, England
  • Typus: present whereabouts unknown
  • ZooBank: 0CDE8A29-FD47-435D-A741-79D7B97777D2

Synonymy

• Balanus dollfusi Broch, 1927: 23
  • Original status: valid species
  • Synonymized in Newman & Ross, 1976: 66
  • ZooBank: 8BDAC53D-9B7C-4DBD-9E00-D27CD8AC5E78

References

• Brown, T. 1844: Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the descriptions and localities of all the species, marine, land and freshwater, 2nd ed.. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 144 p. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 121, used as original citation by authors post-Pilsbry, 1916, description, illustration]

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• Broch, H. 1927. Studies on Moroccan cirripeds (Atlantic Coast). Bulletin de la Société des sciences naturelles et physiques du Maroc 7: 11–38. Biblioteca Digital Reference page.  [See p. 23, as Balanus (Eubalanus) dollfusi, junior synonym]
• Brown, T. 1827. Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls. (BHL) Reference page.  [See Pl. VII, fig. 6, 14, 15 (illustration only, no description)]
• 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. 225]
• Gale, A.S., Rosso, A. & Vertino, A. 2021. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) and a review of the history of Mediterranean Cainozoic cirripedes. Cainozoic Research 21(1)ː 3–73. Reference page.  [See p. 27, short discussion]
• Menesini, E. & Casella, C. 1988. Balanidi Pliocenici della Provincia di Almeria (Andalusia Orientale - Spagna). Studio Sistematico. Atti della Società Toscana della Scienze naturali, Memorie, Serie A 95: 231–269. pdf Reference page.  [See p. 150, discussion]
• 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. 66]
• 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. 115]
• Pitombo, F.B. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha). Zoologica Scripta 33(3): 261–276. DOI: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00145.x Reference page.  [See p. 274]