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Amphibalanus Pitombo 2004

  • 1. Marine & Geological Systems Group, RMIT, Australia. E-mail: john. buckeridge @ rmit. edu. au
  • 2. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan. E-mail: chankk @ gate. sinica. edu. tw
  • 3. National Museum of Marine Science & Technology, Keelung 202, Taiwan

Description

Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004

Diagnosis: Shell comprising six compartments, exterior smooth; paries with single row of longitudinal pores; radii solid, transverse teeth on sutural edge with denticles on lower region; basis calcareous with a single layer of radially oriented pores; scutum with conspicuous adductor ridge.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan, Miocene to Recent (Newman and Ross 1976: 62).

Notes

Published as part of Buckeridge, John Stewart, Chan, Benny K. K. & Lee, Shih-Wei, 2018, Amphibalanus Pitombo 2004, pp. 1-12 in Zoological Studies 57 (54) on page 6, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2018.57-54, http://zenodo.org/record/13316500

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pitombo
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Sessilia
Family
Balanidae
Genus
Amphibalanus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004 sec. Buckeridge, Chan & Lee, 2018

References

  • Pitombo FB. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha). Zool Scr 33 (3): 261 - 276. doi: 10.1111 / j. 0300 - 3256.2004.00145. x.
  • Newman WA, Ross A. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. San Diego Society of Natural History Memoir 9: 1 - 108.