Galapagos Species Database
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Conopea galeata
balano de gorgonia, Gorgonian barnacle
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Thecostraca
Order
Balanomorpha
Suborder
Balanomorpha
Superfamily
Balanoidea
Family
Balanidae
Genus
Conopea
Species
galeata
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California, Ecuador including Galapagos Islands in Santa Fé, Bartolomé, Santiago and Santa Cruz Islands
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Zimmerman, T.L. (2000) A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 156 pp.
- 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, Conopea galeata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8375. Accessed 6 June 2026.