Balanidae
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Balanidae is a family of barnacles of the order Sessilia.
Diagnosis: Barnacles with shell of 4 or 6 compartmental plates, plates porose with complex (arborescent) interlaminate septa, basis calcaeous, rostral plate with radii. Labrum cleft, penis with basidorsal point.
[edit] Genera
- Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004
- Austromegabalanus Newman, 1979
- Austromegabalanus psittacus Molina, 1782
- Balanus Da Costa, 1778
- Fistulobalanus Zullo, 1984
- Megabalanus Hoek, 1913
- Menesiniella Newman, 1982
- Notomegabalanus Newman, 1979
- Paraconcavus Zullo, 1992
- Perforatus Pitombo, 2004
- Tetrabalanus Cornwall, 1941
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[edit] References
- Balanidae (TSN 89599). Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8
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