Balanus bloxhamensis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Superordo: Thoracica Ordo: Sessilia Subordo: Balanomorpha Infraordo: Neobalanoformes Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Balanidae
Subfamilia: Balaninae
Genus: Balanus
Species: †Balanus bloxhamensis

Name

Balanus bloxhamensis Weisbord, 1966: 48

• Original status: valid species
• Geological age: Pliocene, Florida
• Type locality: Choctawhatchee Formation, Jackson bluff, florida
• Types: Holotype PRI JBC5b; paratype PRI JBC5d
• ZooBank: 163F407D-0550-4BFE-8AF5-C33B4646451F

• Note: Species is based on two shells without operculars with v-shaped summits in radii; insufficient material to place this species at genus or subfamily-group level (Zullo, 1992: 39)

References

• Newman, W.A.; Ross, E. 1976: Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 61, placed in Group of Balanus concavus]
• Pitombo, F.B. 2004: Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha). Zoologica Scripta 33(3): 261–276. DOI: 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00145.x Reference page.  [See p. 274, placed in Balanus incertae sedis]
• Weisbord, N.E. 1966: Some late Cenozoic cirripeds from Venezuela and Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology 50(225): 5-146. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 48]