Scalpellomorpha BUCKERIDGE & NEWMAN 2006
- Dataset
- The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms
- Rank
- ORDER
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Maxillopoda
- order
- Scalpellomorpha
diagnosis
Diagnosis: Monophyletic by molecular analyses (except in the study by Herrera et al., 2015). Plesiomorphically, 14 plates present (carina, rostrum, paired scuta, terga, upper latera, carinolatera, inframedian latera and rostrolatera); plates reduced in some taxa, lost in many Lepadoidea.