ARCHAEOBALANIDAE Newman & Ross, 1976, 1913

Pitriana, Pipit, Jones, Diana S., Corbari, Laure & Rintelen, Kristina von, 2020, New insights gained from museum collections: Deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collected during the Karubar expedition in 1991, Zoosystematics and Evolution 96 (2), pp. 649-698 : 649

Family ARCHAEOBALANIDAE Newman & Ross, 1976

Archaeobalanidae Newman & Ross, 1976: 38, 49.

Diagnosis.

Shell with four or sixplates; parietes solid, rarely tubiferous; tubes uniformly or irregularly arranged; radii solid; basis commonly calcareous, rarely tubiferous.