Solidobalanus merrilli

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: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Archaeobalaninae
Genus: Solidobalanus
Species: Solidobalanus merrilli

Name

• Solidobalanus merrilli (Zullo, 1966): 237
  • Original genus: Balanus
  • Symbiont: obligate commensal on gorgonian sea fans, on trunks
  • Type locality: Station 11a, off Sandy Point, Raccoon Key, South Carolina, 45.7 m
  • Typus: USNM 112437; paratypes USNM 112438/1-2
  • Distribution: South Carolina; west coast of Florida; Puerto Rico; reported from Gulf of Mexico (Florida, USA and Vera Cruz, Mexico)
  • ZooBank: 47EE4856-80C0-4CE8-A0DE-7D2DDF4BE4D0

References

• Zullo, V.A. 1966. Thoracic cirripedia from the Continental Shelf off South Carolina, USA. Crustaceana 11(3): 229–244. JSTOR Reference page.  [See p. 237, original desciption as Balanus (Conopea) merrilli]

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• Carriol, R-P. & Schneider, S. 2016. New species of cirripedes (Calanticidae, Scalpellidae and Archaeobalanidae) from the mid Burdigalian (Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 102(1): 41–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.002 Full article (PDF).Reference page.  [See Table 2, distribution]
• Kolbasov, G.A., Chan, B.K-K., Molodtsova, T. & Achituv, Y. 2016. Revision of the coral-inhabiting genus Conopea (Cirripedia: Archaeobalanidae) with description of two new species of the genera Conopea and Acasta. Zootaxa 4178(2): 182–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.2. Reference page.  [See p. 206, as Solidobalanus merrilli, generic re-asignment]
• 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. 55]