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Balanus balanoides Linnaeus, 1767 
AphiaID: 106212

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Thecostraca (Subclass) > Cirripedia (Infraclass) > Thoracica (Superorder) > Sessilia (Order) > Balanomorpha (Suborder) > Balanoidea (Superfamily) > Balanidae (Family) > Balaninae (Subfamily) > Balanus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767)
Rank Species
Parent Balanus Costa, 1778
Sources  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: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details]

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

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

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch gewone zeepok  [details]
English northern rock barnacle  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canada [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
United Kingdom [details]
USA [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (368 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Barnacle Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Arctic to Delaware [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Habitat: found between high and low tide lines  [details]
Image 
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:106212
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). Balanus balanoides Linnaeus, 1767. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106212 on 2013-05-21
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