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Megabalanus tintinnabulum

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and by the parietes having no spines or spiny projections. The parietes can be either rough or smooth, and they are sometimes slightly folded. The basal margin of the shell is either straight or slightly sinuous. The colour is a pale shade of reddish or bluish purple, sometimes streaked
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is of tropical origin, perhaps being native to West Africa and parts of the Indo-Pacific. It is common on both the eastern and western coasts of India. It has spread to other parts of the world attached to the hulls of ships. It was observed on ships' hulls in the
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coast. It was first observed in Western Australia in 1949 and arrived on the east coast of Australia by 1990. It is also found on reefs, bedrock, boulders, and timber structures down to about 40 m (130 ft) deep.
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and is part of the fouling community. It is found on the hulls of ships and on man-made structures in ports. It has a stable population structure and low mortality rate, and is a long-lived species. In the
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is a large barnacle, barrel-shaped or narrowly conical, up to 5 cm (2 in) tall and 6.5 cm (2.6 in) in diameter. It is distinguished from other members of the
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Yan Tao; Yan Wen-xia; Liang Guan-he; Dong Yu; Wang Hua-jie; Yan Yan (2000). "Marine biofouling in offshore areas south of Hainan Island, northern South China Sea".
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are fertilized internally by sperm from another barnacle nearby and start to develop into larvae within a few days. These are
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to subspecies rank and in subsequent years a number of varieties were described. Later it was placed in the subgenus
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to generic rank, giving species rank to each of the 22 subspecies of what had previously been known as
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and probably refers to the fact that small groups of barnacles resemble clusters of miniature bells.
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longitudinally with a darker or lighter shade and sometimes with transverse bands of colour.
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Diana S. Jones (1992). "A review of Australian fouling barnacles". In Brian Morton (ed.).
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described the species as being very variable and assigned it to Section A of the genus
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stages and one cypris larval stage before settling on the seabed, undergoing
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V. Thiyagarajan; V. P. Venugopalan; T. Subramoniam; K. V. K. Nair (1997).
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and developing into juveniles. These cement themselves to the
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in 1764, and in 1998, it was found attached to buoys off the
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Smithsonian Marine Station. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
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Marine pests of Australia. Retrieved March 2, 2012.
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Hong Kong: 563:Journal of Crustacean Biology 402:for the rest of their lives. 363:Like other acorn barnacles, 1166:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus 706:USGS. Retrieved 2012-03-02. 1182: 607:Hong Kong University Press 531:Zoologische Verhandelingen 770:Megabalanus_tintinnabulum 756:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 726:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 631:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 556:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 475:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 424:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 208:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 192: 184: 165:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 161: 154: 46:Scientific classification 44: 39: 30: 25:Megabalanus tintinnabulum 23: 558:(Cirripedia: Balanidae)" 386:. 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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Cirripedia
Balanomorpha
Balanidae
Megabalanus
Binomial name
Linnaeus
1758
Synonyms
barnacle
family
Balanidae
type species
genus
specific name
Latin
tintinnabulum
handbell
Carl Linnaeus
first described
lectotype
Georg Eberhard Rumphius
type locality
Ambon

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