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Amphibalanus

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Amphibalanus is a genus of barnacle of the family Balanidae that includes species formerly assigned to Balanus. It contains the following species:

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassMaxillopoda
  4. OrderSessilia
  5. FamilyBalanidae
Habitatmarine, brackish

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
98
With media
8
Family
Balanidae
Collections
CAS, NCSM, DMNS
Recorded in
United States, Philippines, Netherlands

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Amphibalanus is a genus of barnacle of the family Balanidae that includes species formerly assigned to Balanus. It contains the following species:

==Species== Amphibalanus amphitrite (Darwin, 1854) †Amphibalanus caboblanquensis (Weisbord, 1966) (extinct) †Amphibalanus caribensis (Weisbord, 1966) (extinct) Amphibalanus cirratus (Darwin, 1854) Amphibalanus eburneus (Gould, 1841) †Amphibalanus halosydne (Zullo & Katuna, 1992) (extinct) †Amphibalanus hopkinsi (Zullo, 1968) (extinct) Amphibalanus improvisus (Darwin, 1854) †Amphibalanus itoigawai (Karasawa & Kobayashi, 2025) (extinct) Amphibalanus inexpectatus (Pilsbry, 1916) Amphibalanus peruvianus (Pilsbry, 1909) †Amphibalanus playagrandensis (Weisbord, 1966) (extinct) Amphibalanus poecilotheca (Kruger, 1911) †Amphibalanus reflexus (Zullo, 1984) (extinct) Amphibalanus reticulatus (Utinomi, 1967) Amphibalanus rhizophorae (Ren & Liu, 1989) Amphibalanus salaami (Nilsson-Cantell, 1932) Amphibalanus subalbidus (Henry, 1973) Amphibalanus thailandicus (Puspasari, Yamaguchi & Angsupanich, 2001) Amphibalanus variegatus (Darwin, 1854) Amphibalanus venustus (Darwin, 1854) Amphibalanus zhujiangensis (Ren, 1989)

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