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

Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Semibalanus*	Pilsbry, 1916	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Balanus balanoides*	Linnaeus, 1767	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): fjærerur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Dutch: gewone zeepok sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: acorn Barnacle; barnacle sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;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-United States: Acorn Barnacle sources: Charles Hussey

German: gemeine Seepocke sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Norwegian: fjærerur sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: fjærerur sources: Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 93:1-386

Norwegian Nynorsk: fjørerur sources: Bull. U.S. nat. Mus. 93:1-386

Nynorsk (Norwegian): fjørerur

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
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	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.
additional source	ITIS database
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (345 nucleotides; 152 proteins)
Barcode of Life (111 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2014). Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:106210