Balanomorpha

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

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Species

acorn barnacles

GENUS

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassThecostraca
OrderBalanomorpha

Habitatmarine, brackish

Observations recorded1,200

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taxon name: Balanomorpha
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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: 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, 1982 Pachylasmatidae Utinomi, 1968 Pyrgomatidae Gray, 1825 (coral barnacle) Tetraclitidae Gruvel, 1903 Waikalasmatidae Ross & Newman, 2001 † Pachydiadematidae Chan et al., 2021

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