Galapagos Species Database
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Balanus poecilus
Documented for Quaternary and Recent period
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Thecostraca
Order
Balanomorpha
Suborder
Balanomorpha
Superfamily
Balanoidea
Family
Balanidae
Genus
Balanus
Species
poecilus
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Distribution: Gulf of California, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands in Santa Cruz, Gardner and Española Islands
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Zullo, V.A. (1986) Quaternary Barnacles from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 44(5): 55-66.
- Zullo, V.A. (1991) Zoogeography of the Shallow-Water Cirriped Fauna of the Galápagos Islands ans Adjacent Regions in the Tropical Eastern Pacific In: James, M.J. (ed.): Galápagos Marine Invertebrates. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 173-192.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Balanus poecilus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14667. Accessed 16 July 2025.