Austromegabalanus is a genus of giant barnacles.[1] It contains both extant and extinct species.

Austromegabalanus
Austromegabalanus zulloi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Balanomorpha
Family: Balanidae
Subfamily: Megabalaninae
Genus: Austromegabalanus
Newman, 1979

Species edit

References edit

  1. ^ E. A. Egan & D. T. Anderson. "Larval development of the megabalanine balanomorph Austromegabalanus nigrescens (Lamarck) (Cirripedia, Balanidae)". Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 38 (4): 511–522. doi:10.1071/MF9870511.
  2. ^ Alberto Collareta; Giovanni Coletti; Giulia Bosio; John Buckeridge; Christian de Muizon; Thomas J. DeVries; Rafael M. Varas-Malca; Alí Altamirano-Sierra; Mario Urbina-Schmitt; Giovanni Bianucci (2019). "A new barnacle (Cirripedia: Neobalanoformes) from the early Miocene of Peru: Palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical implications". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 292 (3): 321–338. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2019/0825.
  3. ^ Branch, G.M., Branch, M.L, Griffiths, C.L. and Beckley, L.E. 2005. Two Oceans: a guide to the marine life of southern Africa ISBN 0-86486-672-0
  4. ^ a b c d e f g F. B. Pitombo (2004). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha)". Zoologica Scripta. 33: 261–276. doi:10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00145.x.
  • Newman, W. A., 1979 On the biogeography of Balanomorph barnacles of the southern ocean including new balanid taxa a subfamily, two genera and three species, sér. 137, vol. 1, p. 279-306