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Calanticidae
Family of barnacles
Calanticidae is a family of acorn barnacles in the order Calanticomorpha. There are about 12 genera and more than 60 described species in Calanticidae.
01Genera
These genera belong to the family Calanticidae:
- Aurivillialepas Newman, 1980
- Calantica Gray, 1825
- Crosnieriella Jones, 1998
- Euscalpellum Hoek, 1907
- Gruvelialepas Newman, 1980
- Newmanilepas Zevina & Yakhontova, 1987
- Paracalantica (Utinomi, 1949)
- Pisiscalpellum Utinomi, 1958
- Scillaelepas Seguenza, 1872
- Smilium Gray, 1825
- † Pachyscalpellum Buckeridge, 1991
- † Zeascalpellum Buckeridge, 1983
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