Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Thecostraca > Subclass Cirripedia

Rhizocephala Müller, 1862

Rank: Infraclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Infraclass group names

*Akentrogonida*	Häfele, 1911	synonym
*Kentrogonida*	Delage, 1884	synonym

Children

Chthamalophilidae Bocquet-Védrine, 1961
Clistosaccidae Boschma, 1928
Duplorbidae Høeg & Rybakov, 1992
Parthenopeidae Rybakov & Høeg, 2013
Peltogasterellidae Høeg & Glenner in Høeg, Noever, Rees, Crandall & Glenner, 2019
Peltogastridae Lilljeborg, 1861
Polysaccidae Lützen & Takahashi, 1996
Sacculinidae Lilljeborg, 1861
Thompsoniidae Høeg & Rybakov, 1992
Triangulidae Høeg & Glenner in Høeg, Noever, Rees, Crandall & Glenner, 2019

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: rhizocephalans sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Wurzelkrebse sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 根頭上目 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: rotfotingar

Literature

original description	Müller, F. (1862). Die rhizocephalen, eine neue gruppe schmarotzender kruster. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 28: 1-9, pl. 1.
basis of record	Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B. (2025). World List of Rhizocephala. Rhizocephala. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1109