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Chthamalus fragilis Darwin, 1854

157793  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157793)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Thecostraca (Class)
  7. Cirripedia (Subclass)
  8. Thoracica (Infraclass)
  9. Thoracicalcarea (Superorder)
  10. Balanomorpha (Order)
  11. Chthamaloidea (Superfamily)
  12. Chthamalidae (Family)
  13. Chthamalus (Genus)
  14. Chthamalus fragilis (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
Not documented
Distribution Virginian south side of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras  
Distribution Virginian south side of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
WoRMS (2025). Chthamalus fragilis Darwin, 1854. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157793 on 2025-03-13
Date
action
by
2005-05-24 07:32:08Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-10-22 10:44:16Z
changed
Chan, Benny K.K.
2013-07-03 10:38:20Z
changed
Boxshall, Geoff

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Nomenclature

basis of record Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] 

Other

context source (Introduced species) Fofonoff, P.W.; Ruiz, G.M.; Steves, B.; Carlton, J.T. (2014-2024). National Exotic Marine and Estuarine Species Information System (NEMESIS). , available online at http://invasions.si.edu/nemesis [details] 

additional source Gittings, S. R. 2009. Cirripedia (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 827–836 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species remark In Cape Verdean part of the North Atlantic Ocean : There are no reported impacts of C. fragilis from its introduced range. [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Cape Verdean part of the North Atlantic Ocean : Natural dispersal
O'Riordan et al. (2010) attributed this occurrence to plate tectonic events, noting fossil and recent faunal similarities of this region with the Western Atlantic. [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution Virginian south side of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (216 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Chthamalus fragilis) 
To GenBank (526 nucleotides; 514 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chthamalus fragilis USNM 15623, 48856, unrecordec catalog number) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chthamalus fragilis USNM 15623, 48856, unrecordec catalog number) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (20 records) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060606) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chthamalus fragilis USNM 15623, 48856, unrecordec catalog number)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chthamalus fragilis USNM 15623, 48856, unrecordec catalog number)
Hosted externally
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chthamalus fragilis USNM 15623, 48856, unrecordec catalog number)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Chthamalus fragilis USNM 15623, 48856, unrecordec catalog number)
Hosted externally
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060606)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 060606)
Hosted externally