The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms
Author
Chan, Benny K. K.
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Dreyer, Niklas
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Gale, Andy S.
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Glenner, Henrik
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Ewers-Saucedo, Christine
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Pérez-Losada, Marcos
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Kolbasov, Gregory A.
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Crandall, Keith A.
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Høeg, Jens T.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2021
2021-02-25
193
789
846
journal article
3656
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160
40324061-d8e8-4cfa-9151-4d7b110cff12
0024-4082
5637275
A77C1793-B652-41CE-BB27-CD2E29DEB201
SUPERFAMILY
BALANOIDEA LEACH, 1817
Diagnosis:
Wall composed of rostrum, carina and one to two pairs of marginals, or wholly concrescent; parietes solid or tubiferous; radii solid or tubiferous; basis commonly calcareous, solid or permeated by tubes, rarely membranous; when basis calcareous, internal surfaces of compartments commonly with uniform ribs and interdigitations with wall; mandible quadri- or quinquidentate; caudal appendages absent; penis with basidorsal point; first three pairs of cirri are maxillipeds.
C o m m e n t s:
T h e s p e c i e s a t p r e s e n t a n a l y s e d molecularly form two distinct clades that are here recognized as the
Balanidae
and
Pyrgomatidae
. Relationships of the many species within each of these are much less clear and clearly in need of future analysis by molecular methods.