Austromegabalanus

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

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

Species

^ E. A. Egan & D. T. Anderson (1987). "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.
^ 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.
^ 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
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g F. B. Pitombo (2004). "Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha)". Zoologica Scripta. 33 (3): 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

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