MEGABALANINAE, Leach, 1817

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 : 837

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14165932
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scientific name	MEGABALANINAE
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SUBFAMILY MEGABALANINAE

† Austromegabalanus Newman, 1979 (Miocene– Recent) (eight species)

†† Fosterella Buckeridge, 1983 (Pliocene–Pleistocene) (four species)

† Megabalanus Hoek, 1913 View in CoL (Oligocene–Recent) (37 species)

† Notomegabalanus Newman, 1979 View in CoL (Miocene– Recent) (13 species)

Paractinobalanus Carriol, 2008 (Miocene) (one species)

Pseudoacasta Nilsson-Cantell, 1930 (one species)

†† Tasmanobalanus Buckeridge, 1993 (Oligocene– Pliocene) (one species)

References

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

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Taxonomy

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

Specimens