Membranobalanus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Membranobalanus
Species (12+1†): M. acutus – M. brachialis – M. costatus – M. cuneiformis – M. declivis – †M. distortus – M. koreanus – M. longirostrum – M. nebrias – M. orcutti – M. orcuttiformis – M. porphyrophilus – M. robinae

[Source: WoRMS]

Name

• Membranobalanus Hoek, 1913: 205
  • Gender: [masculine]
  • Original status: valid subgenus of Balanus
  • Symbiont: Commensal, embedded in sponges
  • Geological range: Pliocene (Piacenzian) to Recent
  • Type species:: Balanus declivis Darwin, 1854: 275, by subsequent designation, Pilsbry, 1916: 229
  • ZooBank: A1606DAE-D13B-4200-A9AC-E31769A6E3EB

Synonyms

• Balanus Section E (in part) Darwin, 1854

References

• Hoek, P.P.C. 1913: The Cirripedia of the Siboga Expedition. B. Siboga Expeditie Monogr. XXXIb, i-xxv: 129–275. BHLReference page.  [See p. 205, as Membrano-Balanus)]

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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. 49]
• Gale, A.S. & Sadorf, E. 2025. Cirripedes (Crustacea) from the Pliocene (Piacenzian) Rushmere Member, Yorktown Formation of North Carolina, USA. Acta Geologica Polonica 75(3): e48. DOI: 10.24425/agp.2024.152670 Reference page.  [See p. 13, discussion, valid species]
• 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 Membranobalanus]
• Nilsson-Cantell, C.A. 1921: Cirripeden-studien zur kenhtnis der biologie, anatomie und systematik dieser gruppe. Zoologiska bidrag fran Uppsala, 7: 75–395. [in German] BHL Reference page.  [See p. 340, as Balanus (Membranobalanus)]
• 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. 229, as Balanus (Membranobalanus)]