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titan acorn barnacle

Megabalanus coccopoma

Classification

Family
Balanidae

Megabalanus coccopoma, the titan acorn barnacle, is a tropical species of barnacle first described by Charles Darwin in 1854. Its native range is the Pacific coasts of South and Central America but it is extending its range to other parts of the world. Description The titan acorn barnacle is a large species with calcareous plates forming a steep-sided cone which grows to a height and width of 5 centimetres (2.

Distribution

(c) Giovanni Marques de Castro, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 32United States of America · 4