Elminiidae

{{Short description|Subfamily of barnacles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Hexaminius foliorum.jpg

| image_caption = Hexaminius foliorum

| taxon = Elminiidae

| authority = 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}}

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Elminiidae is a family of symmetrical, sessile barnacles in the order Balanomorpha. The family includes approximately 5 genera and 12 described species.

Genera

These genera belong to the family Elminiidae:

  • Austrominius Buckeridge, 1983{{cite journal |last1=Buckeridge |first1=J. S. |title=The barnacle subfamily Elminiinae —Two new subgenera and a new Miocene species from Victoria |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand |date=1983 |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=353–357 |doi=10.1080/03036758.1982.10415341 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254289534 |access-date=28 March 2024}}
  • Elminius Leach, 1825
  • Hexaminius Foster, 1982
  • Protelminius Buckeridge & Newman, 2010
  • {{Extinct}} Matellonius Buckeridge, 1983

References

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{{Cite web| title=World Register of Marine Species, family Elminiidae

| url=http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1422678

| access-date=2021-08-25

}}

{{Cite journal

| title = The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms

| date = 2021

| last1 = Chan | first1 = Benny K. K.

| last2 = Dreyer | first2 = Niklas

| last3 = Gale | first3 = Andy S.

| last4 = Glenner | first4 = Henrik

| last5 = Ewers-Saucedo | first5 = Christine

| last6 = Pérez-Losada | first6 = Marcos

| last7 = Kolbasov | first7 = Gregory A.

| last8 = Crandall | first8 = Keith A.

| last9 = Høeg | first9 = Jens T.

| display-authors = 4

| journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

| volume = 193

| issue = 3

| pages = 789–846

| doi = 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160| doi-access = free

| hdl = 11250/2990967

| hdl-access = free

}}

}}

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Category:Barnacles

Category:Crustacean families

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