Balanidae

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

• Amphibalanus Pitombo, 2004
• Austromegabalanus Newman, 1979
• Austromegabalanus psittacus Molina, 1782
• Balanus Da Costa, 1778
• Elminius Leach, 1825
• Fistulobalanus Zullo, 1984
• Megabalanus Hoek, 1913
• Menesiniella Newman, 1982
• Notomegabalanus Newman, 1979
• Paraconcavus Zullo, 1992
• Perforatus Pitombo, 2004
• Tetrabalanus Cornwall, 1941

References

• Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8