Balanomorpha
| Balanomorpha | |
|---|---|
| Semibalanus balanoides | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Infraclass: | Thoracica |
| Superorder: | Thoracicalcarea |
| (unranked): | Sessilia |
| Order: | Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916 |
| Superfamilies | |
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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