Taxonavigation

Familia: Balanidae
Subfamilia: Balaninae
Genus: Balanus
Species: Balanus spongicola
Subspecies (2): †B. s. pliocenicus – B. s. spongicola

Name

Balanus spongicola Brown, 1844: 121

• Original status: valid species
• Type locality: Devonshire, England
• Types: present whereabouts unknown
• ZooBank: 0CDE8A29-FD47-435D-A741-79D7B97777D2

References

• Brown, T. 1827. Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls. (BHL) Reference page.  [See pl. Pl. VII, fig. 6, 14, 15] (illustration only, no description)

• Brown, T. 1844: Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the descriptions and localities of all the species, marine, land and freshwater, 2nd ed.. Smith, Elder & Co., London, 144 p. BHL Reference page.  [See p. 121] (used as original citation by authors post-Pilsbry, 1916) (description, illustration)

• 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. 225]

• 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. 66]

• 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. 115]

• 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]