WAIKALASMATIDAE ROSS & NEWMAN, 2001

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700215
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scientific name	WAIKALASMATIDAE ROSS & NEWMAN, 2001
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†FAMILY WAIKALASMATIDAE ROSS & NEWMAN, 2001

Diagnosis: Shell symmetrical, with eight solid, weakly articulated plates; single pieces of wide carina and narrow rostrum, paired rostromarginals, marginals and carinomarginals; alae well developed, radii absent; shell with two or more whorls of imbricating plates; basis membranous; caudal appendages absent.

Waikalasma Buckeridge, 1983 (Miocene–Recent) (three species)

References

Buckeridge JS. 1983. Fossil barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) of New Zealand and Australia. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 50: 1 - 151 + pls.

Newman WA, Ross A. 2001. Prospectus on larval cirriped setation formulae, revisited. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21: 56 - 77.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Thecostraca
SubClass	Cirripedia
InfraClass	Thoracica
SuperOrder	Thoracicalcarea
Order	Balanomorpha
SuperFamily	Chthamaloidea
Family	Waikalasmatidae