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WoRMS taxon details

Balanus spongicola Brown, 1844 
AphiaID: 106221

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 accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
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: 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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Subspecies Balanus spongicola pliocenicus Seguenza, 1876
Subspecies Balanus spongicola spongicola Brown, 1844
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
English Channel [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
South Coast of England [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of England [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Barnacle Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106221
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Southward, Alan
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Balanus spongicola Brown, 1844. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106221 on 2013-05-19
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