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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	27 560005 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Megabalanus tintinnabulum   (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups Family: 27 560 Balanidae (barnacles) - show full list Common Name: [a barnacle] Organism Type: a barnacle Synonyms: Balanus tintinnabulum Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Estuarine Parent Codes: 27 560904     Megabalanus spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is found in most warm temperate to tropical areas worldwide. It is likely to have been introduced to many areas as hull fouling on shipping. Native range is uncertain.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f12dd3dd-4fcb-48cf-b1d4-d9e62dc06508 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia ITIS 206260 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106225 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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., 2010. The littoral and shallow-water barmacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia) of south-eastern Queensland., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature, Vol. 54(3): 199-233.