HETERALEPADIDAE NILSSON- CANTELL, 1921

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., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 789-846 : 830

FAMILY HETERALEPADIDAE NILSSON- CANTELL, 1921 AMENDED

Diagnosis: Monophyletic by molecular analyses. Capitular plates much reduced and often with large part of uncalcified capitulum exposed.

Comment: All contained species are devoid of shell plates, or ( Koleolepas ) only cuticular rudiments ( Hosie, 2014), but such reduction also evolved convergently within some species of the Poecilasmatidae . Based on DNA data provided by Yamamori & Kato (2020), we include the Koleolepas from the now abandoned Koleolepadidae Hiro, 1933 .

Alepas Rang, 1829 (five species)

Heteralepas Pilsbry, 1907 (25 species)

Koleolepas Stebbing, 1900 (three species)

Paralepas Pilsbry, 1907 (29 species)