MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Balanus Costa, 1778

MSBIAS taxon details

Balanus Costa, 1778

AphiaID

106122 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106122)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Balaninae Leach, 1817

Direct children (8)

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Species Balanus balanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Balanus crenatus Bruguière, 1789
Species Balanus spongicola Brown, 1844
Species Balanus trigonus Darwin, 1854
Species Balanus amphitrite Darwin, 1854 accepted as Amphibalanus amphitrite (Darwin, 1854)
Species Balanus eburneus Gould, 1841 accepted as Amphibalanus eburneus (Gould, 1841) (generic reassignment by Pitombo, 2004)
Species Balanus improvisus Darwin, 1854 accepted as Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854)
Species Balanus perforatus Bruguière, 1789 accepted as Perforatus perforatus (Bruguière, 1789) (basionym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 248 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MSBIAS (2024). Balanus Costa, 1778. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106122 on 2024-11-22

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2024). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Balanus Costa, 1778. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106122 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Southward, Alan

2005-03-30 08:09:10Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-10-22 06:14:53Z

checked

Chan, Benny K.K.

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original description Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 248 [details]

taxonomy source Chan, B. K. K.; Dreyer, N.; Gale, A. S.; Glenner, H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C.; Pérez-Losada, M.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Crandall, K. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2021). The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 [details]

basis of record Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Present

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Introduced: alien

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Balanus)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (6 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 061131)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 061131)

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