All things Meio with a specific focus on Chile

Sessilia

Family Genus Species Authority Distribution References
Archaeobalanidae Elminius kingii Gray 1831 Continental Pitombo & Ross, 2002
Balanidae Balanus laevis (Bruguière 1789) Continental Pitombo & Ross, 2002
Balanidae Balanus nascanus Parin et al. 1997 Deep-sea Parin et al., 1997
Balanidae Balanus tintinnabulum (Linnaeus 1758) Continental Nillson-Cantell, 1957
Balanidae Notobalanus flosculus (Darwin 1854) Continental Pitombo & Ross, 2002
Balanidae Austromegabalanus psittacus (Molina 1782) Continental Pitombo & Ross, 2002
Chthamalidae Jehlius cirratus (Darwin 1854) Continental Ramírez & Osorio 2000
Chthamalidae Jehlius gilmorei Ross 1971 Pacific Islands Pitombo & Ross, 2002
Chthamalidae Notochthamalus scabrosus Darwin 1854 Continental Pitombo & Ross, 2002
Verrucidae Altiverruca mollae Parin et al. 1997 Deep-sea Parin et al., 1997
Verrucidae Metaverruca pallida Parin et al. 1997 Deep-sea Parin et al., 1997
Verrucidae Metaverruca tarasovi Parin et al. 1997 Deep-sea Parin et al., 1997
Verrucidae Verruca laevigata (Sowerby 1827) Continental Nillson-Cantell, 1957
Verrucidae Verruca scrippsae Parin et al. 1997 Deep-sea Parin et al., 1997

 

References

Parin, N.V., Mironov, A.N. & Nesis, K.N. (1997) Biology of the Nazca and Sala y Gomez Submarine Ridges, an Outpost of the Indo-West Pacific Fauna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Composition and Distribution of the Fauna, Its Communities and History. Advances in Marine Biology, 32:145-242.

Nillson-Cantell, C. (1957) Thoracica cirripeds from Chile. Report N° 31 of the Lund University. Expedition1948-49. Lunds Univ. Arssk. N.F. 53: 1-25.

Pitombo, F.B. & Ross, A. (2002) A checklist of the intertidal and shallow-water sessile barnacles of the Eastern Pacific, Alaska to Chile. In: Hendrickx ME (ed) Contributions to the study of East Pacific crustaceans: 97-107. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, Mexico.

Ramirez, M.E. & Osorio, C. (2000) Patrones de distribution de macroalgas y macroivertebrados intermareales de la isla Robinson Crusoe, archipielago de Juan Fernandez, Chile. Investigaciones Marina, Valparaiso, 28:1-13.