Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Thecostraca > Subclass Cirripedia > Infraclass Thoracica > Superorder Thoracicalcarea > Order Balanomorpha > Superfamily Balanoidea

Pyrgomatidae Gray, 1825

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Megatrematinae Holthuis, 1982
Pyrgomatinae Gray, 1825

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: サンゴフジツボ科

Literature

basis of record	Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283
additional source	Tsang, L. M.; Chu, K. H.; Nozawa, Y.; Chan, B. K. K. (2014). Morphological and host specificity evolution in coral symbiont barnacles (Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae) inferred from a multi-locus phylogeny. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 77: 11-22.
additional source	Malay, M. C. M. D.; Michonneau, F. (2014). Phylogenetics and morphological evolution of coral-dwelling barnacles (Balanomorpha: Pyrgomatidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 113(1): 162-179.
additional source	Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.
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. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.