Lepadomorpha
A lepadomorpha, according to Answers.com, is "a suborder of barnacles in the order Thoracica having a peduncle and a capitulum which is usually protected by calcareous plates."[1][2]
Taxonomy
The term "Barnacles" is a simplification of anatifère which itself was formed from the Latin anas , the term for ducks . Several other terms used in taxonomy have also derived as Anatiféracé , Anatifériforme . These terms are considered obsolete.
List of existing subfamilies
Barnacles, watercolor Book of Animals of Brazil Zacharias Wagner , 1641 ( Kupferstisch-Kabinett Dresden)
- Lepadidae , Darwin, 1852
- Aleppo
- Conchoderma
- Dosimetric
- Lepas
- Oxynaspididae , Gruvel, 1905
- Oxynaspis
- Poecilasmatidae , Annandale, 1909
- Megalasma
- Octolasmis
- Pagurolepas
- Trilasmis
References
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