NEOLEPADOIDEA, Chan & Dreyer & Gale & Glenner & Ewers-Saucedo & Pérez-Losada & Kolbasov & Crandall & Høeg, 2021

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 : 831

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700733
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scientific name	NEOLEPADOIDEA
status	superfam. nov.

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†SUPERFAMILY NEOLEPADOIDEA SUPERFAM. NOV.

Diagnosis: Eight-plated capitulum comprising paired scuta, terga, upper latera, rostrum and carina. Asymmetry commonly involves loss of the upper latus on one side of the capitulum.

Comments: The group forms a well-defined clade based upon molecular analysis. All living species inhabit hydrothermal vent or seep habitats. There is remarkable morphological convergence of some taxa with Brachylepadomorpha ( Gale et al., 2020) , and the neolepadomorphs were probably derived from a form close to Pycnolepas . Gale (2019) included the Balanomorpha , Brachylepadomorpha, Neolepadomorpha and Verrucomorpha in the clade Unilatera, characterized by possession of only two latera (upper latus pair).

References

Gale AS. 2019. Stalked barnacles (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset, UK; palaeoecology and bearing on the evolution of living forms. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 130: 355 - 365.

Gale AS, Little CTS, Johnson JE, Giosan L. 2020. A new neolepadid cirripede (Thoracica, Crustacea) from a Pleistocene cold seep, Krishna-Godavari Basin, offshore India. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65: 351 - 362.