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Sessilia

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Sessilia is an unranked clade of barnacles, comprising the barnacles without stalks, or acorn barnacles. They form a monophyletic group and are probably derived from stalked or goose barnacles. Sessilia is divided into two orders. The Verrucomorpha contain two families, Verrucidae and Neoverrucidae, and the remaining 14 families are in the order Balanomorpha.

The Balanomorpha are an order of barnacles, containing familiar sessile shelled acorn barnacles of the seashore. The order contains these families:

Bathylasmatidae

Bathylasmatidae is a family of barnacles belonging to the order Balanomorpha.

Menesiniella aquila

species of crustacean (fossil)

Coronuloidea is a superfamily of barnacles in the order Balanomorpha.

Verruca stroemia

species of crustacean

Xenobalanus globicipitis

species of crustacean

Chthamalus dalli

species of crustacean

Elminius kingii

species of barnacle

Chthamalus fragilis

species of crustacean

Notomegabalanus decorus

species of barnacle

Chthamalus fissus

species of crustacean

Chionelasmatidae

Chionelasmatidae is a family of barnacles belonging to the order Balanomorpha.

Pachylasmatidae

Pachylasmatidae is a family of symmetrical sessile barnacles in the order Balanomorpha. There are about 10 genera and at least 30 described species in Pachylasmatidae.

Bathylasma is a genus of barnacles.

species of crustacean

Octomeris angulosa

species of crustacean