Thoracicalcarea
| Thoracicalcarea | |
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| Balanus glandula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Infraclass: | Thoracica |
| Superorder: | Thoracicalcarea Gale, 2015[1] |
| Orders[1] | |
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Thoracicalcarea is a monophyletic[2] superorder of barnacles in the infraclass Thoracica.[1] It contains seven orders, five extant (Balanomorpha, Calanticomorpha, Pollicipedomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, and Verrucomorpha) and two extinct (Archaeolepadomorpha and Brachylepadomorpha).[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Thoracicalcarea Gale, 2015". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2025. Retrieved 30 November 2025.
- ↑ Chan, Benny K K; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S; Glenner, Henrik; Ewers-Saucedo, Christine; Pérez-Losada, Marcos; Kolbasov, Gregory A; Crandall, Keith A; Høeg, Jens T (26 October 2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 789–846. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160. hdl:11250/2990967.
External links
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