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Balanidae
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Balanidae

The Balanidae comprise a family of barnacles of the order Sessilia, containing these genera:

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10 branches of this family, most-observed first

Rock-barnacles

genusBalanus

Semibalanus

genusSemibalanus

Amphibalaninae

subfamilyAmphibalaninae

Megabalaninae

subfamilyMegabalaninae

Concavinae

subfamilyConcavinae

Archaeobalaninae

subfamilyArchaeobalaninae

Sponge Barnacles

subfamilyAcastinae

Bryozobiinae

subfamilyBryozobiinae

Hexacreusia

genusHexacreusia

Wanellinae

subfamilyWanellinae

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49128.