Balanus darwini

Taxonavigation

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

Name

• Balanus darwini Seguenza. 1876: 453
  • Original status: valid species
  • Stratigraphic and geographic distribution: Pleistocene (Calabrian), Italy
  • Type locality: Calabria, Italy
  • Typus: Lectotype shell illustrated in Seguenza, 1876, pl. 10, fig. 13; specimen lost
  • ZooBank: 767D8A62-1F68-4323-95C1-6D0480961B05

References

• Seguenza, G. 1876: Recirche Paleontologiche intorno ai Cirripedi terziari della provincia de Messina. Con appendici intorno ai Cirripedi viventi nel Mediterraneo e sui fossili terziari dell'Italia Meridionale Parte II Lepadidae (1876). Atti della Accademia Pontaniana 10: 367-481. full articleReference page.  [See p. 453, original description; also see p. 455, as Balanus darwini calabrus, junior synonym]]

• 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. 27, identification, fossil history]
• 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. 65]
• 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]