Balanomorpha

{{Short description|Suborder of barnacles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Barnacles.jpg

| image_alt = "Semibalanus balanoides"

| image_caption = Semibalanus balanoides

| taxon = Balanomorpha

| authority = Pilsbry, 1916 {{ITIS |id=89589 |taxon=Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916 |accessdate=March 6, 2011}}

| display_parents = 4

| subdivision_ranks = Superfamilies

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| subdivision =

• Balanoidea Leach, 1817
• Chthamaloidea Darwin, 1854
• Coronuloidea Leach, 1817
• Elminioidea Chan et al., 2021
• † Pachydiadematoidea Chan et al., 2021

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The Balanomorpha are an order of barnacles, containing familiar sessile shelled acorn barnacles of the seashore. The order contains these families:{{cite book |url=http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author=Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis |year=2001 |pages=132 |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |access-date=2011-03-06 |archive-date=2013-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512091254/http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf |url-status=dead }}

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• Austrobalanidae Newman & Ross, 1976
• Balanidae Leach, 1817 (acorn barnacles)
• Bathylasmatidae Newman & Ross, 1971
• Catophragmidae Utinomi, 1968
• Chelonibiidae Pilsbry, 1916 (turtle barnacles)
• Chionelasmatidae Buckeridge, 1983
• Chthamalidae Darwin, 1854 (star barnacles)
• Coronulidae Leach, 1817 (whale barnacles)
• Elminiidae Foster, 1982{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=Brian A. |title=Two new intertidal balanoid barnacles from eastern Australia. |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |date=1982 |volume=106 |pages=21–32 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/47759 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
• Pachylasmatidae Utinomi, 1968
• Pyrgomatidae Gray, 1825 (coral barnacle)
• Tetraclitidae Gruvel, 1903
• Waikalasmatidae Ross & Newman, 2001
• † Pachydiadematidae Chan et al., 2021

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