Austromegabalanus Explained

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

Species

• Austromegabalanus carrioli Collareta et al., 2019^[2]
• Austromegabalanus cylindricus (Gmelin, 1780)^[3]
• Austromegabalanus isolde (Holthius & Silvertsen, 1967)
• Austromegabalanus nigrescens (Lamarck, 1818)
• †Austromegabalanus piscoensis Carriol et al., 1987
• Austromegabalanus psittacus (Molina, 1788)
• †Austromegabalanus victoriensis Buckeridge, 1983
• Austromegabalanus zulloi Newman, 1979^[4]

References

• 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

Notes and References

1. Larval development of the megabalanine balanomorph Austromegabalanus nigrescens (Lamarck) (Cirripedia, Balanidae) . E. A. Egan & D. T. Anderson . . 38 . 4 . 511–522 . 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 . 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
4. F. B. Pitombo . 2004 . Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) . . 33 . 261–276 . 10.1111/j.0300-3256.2004.00145.x.