BALANOMORPHA Pilsbry, 1916, 1998

Pitriana, Pipit, Jones, Diana S., Corbari, Laure & Rintelen, Kristina von, 2020, New insights gained from museum collections: Deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collected during the Karubar expedition in 1991, Zoosystematics and Evolution 96 (2), pp. 649-698 : 649

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scientific name	BALANOMORPHA Pilsbry, 1916
status

Treatment

Suborder BALANOMORPHA Pilsbry, 1916

Symetrica Operculata tribe Symetrica Gruvel, 1905: 189.

Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916: 47 ( Balanidae sensu Darwin, 1854).

Diagnosis.

Peduncle absent; shells bilaterally symmetrical on either side of rostrocarinal axis; shell with parietal plates of carina, rostrum and one to three pairs of lateral plates, all separate from one another, variously fused or totally concrescent; base membranous or calcareous; hermaphroditic or with dwarf males.