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CAAB Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	27 560009 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Megabalanus rosa    (Pilsbry, 1916)
CAAB category:	27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca
Family:	Balanidae (barnacles) - show full list
Common Name:	[a barnacle]
Organism Type:	a barnacle
Identifiers:	Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2a6ecd19-2b3c-423e-9217-9a3de05fde4d    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:394983    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at OBIS (report and map of occurrences)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Tropical Indo-Pacific (countries N/NE Australia)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Record source:	Jones, D.S., 2003. The biogeography of Western Australian shallow water barnacles. In: Wells, F.E. Walker, D.I. Jones, D.S., Editors, The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia.: 479-496. Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA
Scientific Name verified against:	Jones, D.S., 2012. Australian barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica), distributions and biogeographical affinities., Integrative and Comparative Biology, Vol. 52(3): 366-387.