Megabalanus
Sign in to saveMegabalanus is a genus of barnacles in the family Balanidae. Members of the genus grow to in length and inhabit the lower intertidal zone.
Species
アカフジツボ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMaxillopoda
- OrderSessilia
- FamilyBalanidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 426
- With media
- 17
- Family
- Balanidae
- Collections
- LACM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Megabalanus sections.JPG
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Megabalanus
- taxon name
- Megabalanus
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Megabalanus
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Morphology
- Ecology
- Geological utility
- Species
- References
Megabalanus is a genus of barnacles in the family Balanidae. Members of the genus grow to in length and inhabit the lower intertidal zone.
==Morphology== Megabalanus is an acorn barnacle, a sessile crustacean that secretes a calcium carbonate shell consisting of five plates. It reaches up to in height .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megabalanus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.