WoRMS taxon details
Acrothoracica
- Order Cryptophialida
- Order Lithoglyptida
- Order Apygophora accepted as Lithoglyptida (part synonym)
- Order Pygophora accepted as Lithoglyptida (part synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
WoRMS (2025). Acrothoracica. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1108 on 2025-07-14
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Nomenclature
basis of record
Brusca, R.C.; Brusca, G.J. (1990). Invertebrates. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA (USA). ISBN 0-87893-098-1. 922 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Chan, B. K. K.; Dreyer, N.; Gale, A. S.; Glenner, H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C.; Pérez-Losada, M.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Crandall, K. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2021). The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 [details] 
Other
additional source
Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. <em>Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA).</em> 124 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Lin, H.-C.; Kobasov, G. A.; Chan, B. K. K. (2016). Phylogenetic relationships of Darwin's “Mr. Arthrobalanus”: The burrowing barnacles (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 100: 292-302., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.016 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pérez-Losada, M.; Crandall, K. A.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2002). Reanalysis of the Relationships among the Cirripedia and the Ascothoracida and the Phylogenetic Position of the Facetotecta (Maxillopoda: Thecostraca) Using 18S rDNA Sequences. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 22(3): 661-669., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/20021975-99990278 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]additional source Lin, H.-C.; Kobasov, G. A.; Chan, B. K. K. (2016). Phylogenetic relationships of Darwin's “Mr. Arthrobalanus”: The burrowing barnacles (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 100: 292-302., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.016 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pérez-Losada, M.; Crandall, K. A.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2002). Reanalysis of the Relationships among the Cirripedia and the Ascothoracida and the Phylogenetic Position of the Facetotecta (Maxillopoda: Thecostraca) Using 18S rDNA Sequences. <em>Journal of Crustacean Biology.</em> 22(3): 661-669., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/20021975-99990278 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Minute, burrowing female barnacles found primarily in calcareous substrates (corals, mollusks, thoracican shells, bryozoans etc.), with soft carapace, accompanied by dwarf males, all calcareous shell plates absent, a single pair of largely chitinous plates (opercular bars) guarding the aperture, terminal cirri reduced to 3-5 pairs, gathering in the posterior elongated portion of the thorax, single pair of cirri located at the side of the mouth, caudal appendages present or absent, abdomen reduced in adults. Acrothoracica is known from Lower Devonian or even Ordovician. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 尖胸上目 | [details] |