Thoracicalcarea

Thoracicalcarea
Balanus glandula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Infraclass: Thoracica
Superorder: Thoracicalcarea
Gale, 2015
Orders

Thoracicalcarea is a monophyletic superorder of barnacles in the infraclass Thoracica. It contains seven orders, four extant (Balanomorpha, Calanticomorpha, Pollicipedomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, and Verrucomorpha) and two extinct (Archaeolepadomorpha and Brachylepadomorpha).

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