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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Maxillopoda (class)  »  Sessilia (order)  »  Balanidae (family)

CAAB Code: 27 560012 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Megabalanus coccopoma   (Darwin, 1854)

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]
Common Names List: titan acorn barnacle
Organism Type: a barnacle
Synonyms: Balanus coccopoma
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 27 560904     Megabalanus spp.
Taxon Notes:This species is native to Pacific coast of Central and South America, but has been spread to many other areas as hull fouling on shipping. It has been recorded from port areas around most of the Australian mainland, mostly from ships' hulls.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:614036fc-8000-4461-978e-10ccc4288d8b
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149682
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: Poore, G.C.B., Syme, A., 2009, Barnacles.. Museum Victoria, Melbourne 70pp.
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.
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