Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Maxillopoda > Subclass Thecostraca > Infraclass Cirripedia > Superorder Thoracica > Order Sessilia > Suborder Balanomorpha > Superfamily Tetraclitoidea > Family Austrobalanidae > Subfamily Elminiinae > Genus Elminius

Elminius modestus Darwin, 1854

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Elminius*	Leach, 1825	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: firepladet rur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kruisridderpok; Nieuw-Zeelandse zeepok; sterretje sources: Severijns, N. (1996). Report on the end-of-year excursion to De Panne on 23 September 1995 [Verslag van de eindejaarsexcursie te De Panne op 23 september 1995]. De Strandvlo 16(1): 39-43;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English: Australasian barnacle sources: Power, A.M.; O’Riordan R.M.; Myers, A.A.; McGrath, D. (2006).Increases in the abundance of the invasive barnacle Elminius modestus Darwin in Ireland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 106(2): 155-161

French: balane de nouvelle sources: 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.

German: Australische Seepocke

Literature

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
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	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

Genbank

External Links

Link Marine Life Information Network - UK
Link To GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2011). Elminius modestus. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106209