Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004

Pitriana, Pipit, Jones, Diana S., Corbari, Laure & Rintelen, Kristina von, 2020, New insights gained from museum collections: Deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collected during the Karubar expedition in 1991, Zoosystematics and Evolution 96 (2), pp. 649-698 : 649

Genus Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004

Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004: 263.

Diagnosis.

Shell with four or six plates; parietal tubes with one or more rows, commonly transverse septa; radii with transverse teeth on sutural edge, with denticles on lower side only; alae not cleft; basis with single tubiferous; scutum with conspicuous adductor ridge; tergum with well-developed depressor muscle crests, growth lines in tergum spur display an obvious change in direction; second maxilla with smooth anterior margin of distal lobe, acuminate setae with enlarged, modified tips. Cirrus III with inner face of endopod with pinnate setae, rarely bifurcate (complex) setae.

Type species.

Balanus amphitrite Darwin, 1854: 240 (part.), pl. 5, fig. 2a-d, i-k, m-o; type locality: Natal, South Africa.