WoRMS taxon details
Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854)
AphiaID: 149682
AphiaID: 149682
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Thecostraca (Subclass) > Cirripedia (Infraclass) > Thoracica (Superorder) > Sessilia (Order) > Balanomorpha (Suborder) > Balanoidea (Superfamily) > Balanidae (Family) > Megabalaninae (Subfamily) > Megabalanus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Megabalanus Hoek, 1913 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Darwin, C.R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-Class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidae (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc., etc., etc. 1-684, plates 1-30. The Ray Society, London. [details] basis of record: Kerckhof, F. (2002). Barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) in Belgian waters, an overview of the species and recent evolutions, with emphasis on exotic species. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 72(Suppl.): 93-104 (look up in IMIS) [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: Gittings, S. R. 2009. Cirripedia (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 827–836 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (57 nucleotides; 55 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Barnacle Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Alien species: The titan acorn barnacle or Megabalanus coccopoma originally only occurred along the west coasts of Central- and South-America. This barnacle was observed for the first time in Europe in 1851, on the hull of a ship moored at Le Havre, France. In Belgium, the titan acorn barnacle was first observed on buoys on the coast in 1997. It is an opportunistic species and is part of the fouling community on ships hulls and other hard substrates. It also competes with indigenous barnacles. [details] Distribution: This species originates from the tropical eastern Pacific coasts of Central and South America. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149682 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Chan, Benny K.K. (2013). Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=149682 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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