Platylepadidae
Sign in to savethumb|Platylepas hexastylos In the past, Platylepadidae has been considered a family of barnacles of the order Sessilia. Research published in 2021 by Chan et al. resulted in the genera of Platylepadidae being merged with that of Balanidae, except Stephanolepas which was moved to Chelonibiidae. In the same work, Sessilia was not retained as an order of barnacles.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMaxillopoda
- OrderSessilia
- FamilyPlatylepadidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- Family
- Platylepadidae
- Collections
- YPM, QVMAG, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Coronuloidea
- Image
- Platylepas hexastylos (YPM IZ 052356) 002.jpeg
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- Commons category
- Coronulidae
- taxon name
- Platylepadidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon synonym of
- Whale barnacle
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thumb|Platylepas hexastylos In the past, Platylepadidae has been considered a family of barnacles of the order Sessilia. Research published in 2021 by Chan et al. resulted in the genera of Platylepadidae being merged with that of Balanidae, except Stephanolepas which was moved to Chelonibiidae. In the same work, Sessilia was not retained as an order of barnacles.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Platylepadidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.