| Balanomorpha | |
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| Semibalanus balanoides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Infraclass: | Thoracica |
| Superorder: | Thoracicalcarea |
| (unranked): | Sessilia |
| Order: | Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916 1 |
| Superfamilies2 | |
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The Balanomorpha are an order of barnacles, containing familiar sessile shelled acorn barnacles of the seashore. The order contains these families:32
- Austrobalanidae Newman & Ross, 1976
- Balanidae Leach, 1817 (acorn barnacles)
- Bathylasmatidae Newman & Ross, 1971
- Catophragmidae Utinomi, 1968
- Chelonibiidae Pilsbry, 1916 (turtle barnacles)
- Chionelasmatidae Buckeridge, 1983
- Chthamalidae Darwin, 1854 (star barnacles)
- Coronulidae Leach, 1817 (whale barnacles)
- Elminiidae Foster, 19824
- Pachylasmatidae Utinomi, 1968
- Pyrgomatidae Gray, 1825 (coral barnacle)
- Tetraclitidae Gruvel, 1903
- Waikalasmatidae Ross & Newman, 2001
- † Pachydiadematidae Chan et al., 2021
References
References
- "Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. p. 132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
- Foster, Brian A. (1982). "Two new intertidal balanoid barnacles from eastern Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 106: 21–32. Retrieved 28 March 2024.