Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea

Thecostraca Gruvel, 1905

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Class group names

*Hexanauplia*	Oakley, Wolfe, Lindgren & Zaharof, 2013	synonym

Children

Ascothoracida Lacaze-Duthiers, 1880
Cirripedia Burmeister, 1834

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: barnacles sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: 鞘甲亜綱

Literature

original description	Gruvel, A. 1905. Monographie des Cirrhipèdes ou Thécostracés. Masson et Cie, Éditeurs, Paris, 472 pp. [Reprinted 1965, A. Asher & Co., Amsterdam]
basis of record	Grygier, M.J. (1996). Classe des Thécostracés (Thecostraca Gruvel, 1905) Sous-classe des Facetotecta (Facetotecta Grygier, 1985) [The Thecostraca Gruvel, 1905, subclass Facetotecta Grygier, 1985]. In: Forest, J. (ed.). (1996). Crustacés, Généalitiés (suite) et Systématique. Traité de Zoologie Anatomie, Systématique, Biologie, Masson, Paris. 7(2):1002 pp. : 425-432.
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.