Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Thecostraca > Subclass Cirripedia > Infraclass Thoracica > Superorder Thoracicalcarea > Order Balanomorpha

Chthamaloidea Darwin, 1854

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Chthamalidae Darwin, 1854
Pachylasmatidae Utinomi, 1968

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: イワフジツボ上科

Literature

original description	Chan, B. K. K.; Corbari, L.; Rodriguez Moreno, P. A.; Tsang, L. M. (2017). Molecular phylogeny of the lower acorn barnacle families (Bathylasmatidae, Chionelasmatidae, Pachylasmatidae and Waikalasmatidae) (Cirripedia: Balanomorpha) with evidence for revisions in family classification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180(3): 542-555.
basis of record	Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283
additional source	Pérez-Losada, M.; Høeg, J. T.; Crandall, K. A.; Achituv, Y. (2012). Molecular phylogeny and character evolution of the chthamaloid barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65(1): 329-334.
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
taxonomy source	Chan, B. K. K.; Dreyer, N.; Gale, A. S.; Glenner, H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C.; Pérez-Losada, M.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Crandall, K. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2021). The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.