THORACICALCAREA GALE, 2015

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 : 827

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†SUPERORDER THORACICALCAREA GALE, 2015

Diagnosis: As described by Gale (2015a); extant taxa are monophyletic by molecular analyses. Thoracicans with five or more plates composed of calcite, or secondarily lost; living taxa with a pre-orally positioned adductor muscle and no comb collar around mantle aperture; first pair of thoracopods modified into mouth cirri (maxillipeds).