Galapagos Species Database

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Balanus poecilus Darwin, 1854

Documented for Quaternary and Recent period

Taxonomy

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

Distribution: Gulf of California, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands in Santa Cruz, Gardner and Española Islands

References

  • 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.