Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Maxillopoda > Subclass Thecostraca > Infraclass Cirripedia > Superorder Thoracica > Order Sessilia > Suborder Balanomorpha > Superfamily Balanoidea > Family Balanidae > Subfamily Megabalaninae > Genus Megabalanus

Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Megabalanus*	Hoek, 1913	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: grote roze zeepok sources: VLIZ Alien Species Consortium

English: titan acorn barnacle

Literature

original description	Darwin, C.R. 1854. A monograph on the sub-Class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidae (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidae, etc., etc., etc. 1-684, plates 1-30. The Ray Society, London.
basis of record	Kerckhof, F. (2002). Barnacles (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) in Belgian waters, an overview of the species and recent evolutions, with emphasis on exotic species. Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 72(Suppl.): 93-104
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Gittings, S. R. 2009. Cirripedia (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 827–836 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Barnacle Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
GenBank (57 nucleotides; 55 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Chan, Benny K.K. (2014). Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:149682