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**''[[Austromegabalanus psittacus]]'' <small>Molina, 1782</small>
**''[[Austromegabalanus psittacus]]'' <small>Molina, 1782</small>
* ''[[Balanus]]'' <small>Da Costa, 1778</small>
* ''[[Balanus]]'' <small>Da Costa, 1778</small>
* ''[[Elminius]]'' <small>Leach, 1825</small>
* ''[[Fistulobalanus]]'' <small>Zullo, 1984</small>
* ''[[Fistulobalanus]]'' <small>Zullo, 1984</small>
* ''[[Megabalanus]]'' <small>Hoek, 1913</small>
* ''[[Megabalanus]]'' <small>Hoek, 1913</small>

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Balanidae
Balanus glandula
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Balanidae

Leach, 1817
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Balanidae is a family of barnacles of the order Sessilia.

Diagnosis: Barnacles with shell of 4 or 6 compartmental plates, plates porose with complex (arborescent) interlaminate septa, basis calcaeous, rostral plate with radii. Labrum cleft, penis with basidorsal point.

Genera

References

  • "Balanidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  • Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8