CORONULOIDEA LEACH, 1817

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 : 834-835

SUPERFAMILY CORONULOIDEA LEACH, 1817

Diagnosis: Wall of eight (rostrum discernibly tripartite), six or four plates; plates tubiferous; tubes formed between inner and outer lamina, between internal buttresses or between external ribs; radii solid; basis membranous or weakly calcareous. First three pairs of cirri modified as maxillipeds.

Comment: The presence of three pairs of mouth cirri is synapomorphic with the Balanoidea ; the members seem originally to have inhabited the rocky intertidal zone, but many members have been both morphologically and biologically adapted to epibiosis on a wide variety of invertebrate and vertebrates.