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Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767) 
AphiaID: 106210

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Thecostraca (Subclass) > Cirripedia (Infraclass) > Thoracica (Superorder) > Sessilia (Order) > Balanomorpha (Suborder) > Balanoidea (Superfamily) > Archaeobalanidae (Family) > Semibalaninae (Subfamily) > Semibalanus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Semibalanus Pilsbry, 1916
Synonymised
taxa
  Balanus balanoides Linnaeus, 1767 (Synonym)
Lepas balanoides Linnaeus, 1767
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Eneman, E. (1984). Uit het Natuurhistorisch Archief [From the Natural History Archive]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 4-17 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Danish lavvandsrur  [details]
Dutch gewone zeepok  [details]
English acorn Barnacle  [details]
English barnacle  [details]
English northern rock barnacle (from synonym)  [details]
French balane  [details]
French balane commune  [details]
German gemeine Seepocke  [details]
German Seepocke  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål fjærerur  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk fjørerur  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Canada (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
USA (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (111 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (345 nucleotides; 152 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: This species lives in the intertidal zones of the boreo-arctic regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. [details]

Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, downstream and upstream part of middle St. Lawrence Estuary, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles and Pointe des Monts), middle North Shore (from Sept - Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Island), lower North Shore, South slope of Anticosti Island, western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland, and the Southwestern slope of NL; Cobscook Bay [details]

Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Taxonomy: Superfamily: Balanoidea, Family: Archaeobalanidae, Subfamily: Semibalaninae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
Images 
Slabber (1778, pl. 06)
Slabber (1778, pl. 06)
added on 2008-06-16 - author: P.M. Brasser in Slabber, M. (1778)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106210
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Southward, Alan
2013-04-05 12:58:31Z  changed  Boxshall, Geoff
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106210 on 2013-05-23
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