Megabalanus tintinnabulum

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 Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Balanidae
Subfamilia: Megabalaninae
Tribus: Megabalanini
Genus: Megabalanus
Species: Megabalanus tintinnabulum

Name

Megabalanus tintinnabulum (Linnaeus, 1758): 668

Original genus: Lepas Linnaeus, 1758: 667
Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Oligocene through Pleistocene, France, Spain, Sardinia, Italy, Algeria; living, cosmopolitan, distributed by shipping
Type locality: Amboina, Indonesia
Types: Lectotype, specimen illustrated in Rumphius, 1705, pl. 41, fig. A (Designation by Henry & McLaughlin, 1986: 18)
Distribution: Living populations found worldwide, and distributed by shipping; reported as fossil from Neogene localities in Europe.
ZooBank: 55329EAC-DA62-4AEC-BB90-81726680543E

Synonymy

Balanus tintinnabulum antillensis Pilsbry, 1916: 63
- Type locality: St. Thomas, West Indies
- Types: Holotype, ANSP 2083
- ZooBank: D142CAE5-F6CC-4EA8-8047-836CAD3E545B
- Synonymized in Henry & McLaughlin, 1986: 18
Balanus tintinnabulum communis Darwin, 1854: 195 (Notes: 1. Darwin's custom was to use "communis" to designate nomino-typical subspecies. 2. Name Balanus communis Darwin, 1854 is pre-occupied by Balanus communis (Pulteney, 1799), junior synonym of Perforatus perforatus)
- ZooBank: 41A058FE-6F40-4D86-B34D-1DD7D4E51091

References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL Reference page. [See p. 668, as Lepas tintiñabulum]
Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page. [See p. 195, as Balanus tintinnabulum] (year of publication erroneously given as 1767)
Gale, A.S., Rosso, A. & Vertino, A. 2021. Cirripedes (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Sicily (Italy) and a review of the history of Mediterranean Cainozoic cirripedes. Cainozoic Research 21(1)ː 3–73. Reference page. [See p. 28, fossil record]
Henry, D.P. & McLaughlin, P.A. 1986. The Recent species of Megabalanus (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha) with special emphasis on Balanus tintinnabulum (Linnaeus) sensu lato. Zoologische verhandelingen 235(8): 1–69. PDF. Reference page. [See p. 17, for complete list of older junior synonyms, pre-Linnaeus references, and lectotype designation]
Newman, W.A. 1979: On the biogeography of balanomorph barnacles of the Southern Ocean including new balanid taxa: A subfamily two genera and three species. IN Proceedings of the International Symposium of Marine Biogeography and Evolution in the Southern Hemisphere. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research information series 137 1: 279–306. Reference page.
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. 68]
Pilsbry, H.A. 1916. The sessile barnacles (Cirripedia) contained in the collections of the US National Museum; including a monograph of the American species. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (93) DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.1144 Reference page. [See p. 55, as Balanus (Megabalanus) tintinnabulum tintinnabulum; see also p. 63, as Balanus tintinnabulum antillensis, junior synonym]
Pitriana, P., Valente, L., von Rintelen, T., Jones, D.S., Prabowo, R.E. & von Rintelen, K. 2020. An annotated checklist and integrative biodiversity discovery of barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia) from the Moluccas, East Indonesia. ZooKeys, 945: 17–83. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.945.39044 Reference page.
Pochai, A., Kingtong, S., Sukparangsi, W. & Khachonpisitsak, S. 2017. The diversity of acorn barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) across Thailand’s coasts: The Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 13–34. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.10769. Reference page.
Pulteney, R. 1799: Catalogues of the birds, shells and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire. 92 pp. Reference page.
Rumphius, G.E. (†) 1705. D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergely-ke zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt: daar beneven zommige mineraalen, gesteenten, en soorten van aarde, die in d'Amboinsche, en zommige omleggende eilanden gevonden worden. Verdeelt in drie boeken, en met nodige printverbeeldingen, alle naar't leven getekent, voorzien (ed. 1): (1–28), 1–340, (1–43), pis. 1–60. Amsterdam, Francois Halma. BHL Reference page. [See for lectotype illustration]
Trivedi, J.N., Doshi, M., Patel, K.J. & Chan, B. K-K. 2021. Diversity of intertidal, epibiotic, and fouling barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from Gujarat, northwest India. ZooKeys 1026: 143–178. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1026.60733 Reference page. [as Megabalanus tintinnabulum p. 150–151]

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