Chirona

Chirona

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia 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 (2 + 4†): C. evermanni – C. hameri – †C. burhabalangensis – †C. birmanicus – †C. sublaevis – †C. varians

Name

• Chirona Gray, 1835: 37
  • Original status: valid genus
  • Geological rangeː Miocene to Recent
  • Type species:: Lepas hameri Ascanius, 1767, subsequent designation by Pilsbry, 1916
  • ZooBank: 6A2DFF6E-4EFB-4876-9E61-F5CA4E5324D9

Synonymy

• Balanus (Metabalanus) Pilsbry, 1916ː 201
  • Type species:: Balanus hoekianus Pilsbry, 1911, OD and monotypy
  • Synonymized in Tarasov & Zevina, 1957ː 230

References

• Gray, J.E. In Lyell, C. 1835: The Bakerian Lecture. On the Proofs of a Gradual Rising of the Land in Certain Parts of Sweden. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 125: 1–38. JSTORReference page.  [See p. 37, as section Chirona]

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• Chan, B.K-K., Dreyer, N., Gale, A.S., Glenner, H., Ewers-Saucedo, C., Perez-Losada, M., Kolbasov, G.A., Crandall, K.A. & Høeg, J.T. 2021. The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193(3): 789–846. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 Reference page.  [See p. 48]
• 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. 52, as Chirona (Chirona)]
• 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. 203, as Balanus (Chirona); see p. 201, as Balanus (Metabalanus)]
• 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]