- Balanidae
Taxobox | name = Balanidae
image_caption = "Balanus glandula "
image_width = 250px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum = Crustacea
classis =Maxillopoda
subclassis =Thecostraca
infraclass =Cirripedia
ordo =Sessilia
subordo =Balanomorpha
superfamilia =Balanoidea
familia = Balanidae
familia_authority = Leach, 1817
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "See text"Balanidae is a family of
barnacle s of the orderSessilia .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.
Genera
* "
Amphibalanus " Pitombo, 2004
* "Austromegabalanus " Newman, 1979
**"Austromegabalanus psittacus " Molina, 1782
* "Balanus " Da Costa, 1778
* "Elminius " Leach, 1825
* "Fistulobalanus " Zullo, 1984
* "Megabalanus " Hoek, 1913
* "Menesiniella " Newman, 1982
* "Notomegabalanus " Newman, 1979
* "Paraconcavus " Zullo, 1992
* "Perforatus " Pitombo, 2004
* "Tetrabalanus " Cornwall, 1941References
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* Glen Pownall, "New Zealand Shells and Shellfish", Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand1979 ISBN 85467 054 8
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