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  5. Thoracican Barnacles
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Symmetrical Sessile Barnacles

Balanomorpha

Includes
32 native 2 introduced 2 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

The Balanomorpha are an order of barnacles, containing familiar sessile shelled acorn barnacles of the seashore. The order contains these families:

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Children

  • Balanoidea 21 native
  • Coronuloidea 7 native
  • Chthamaloidea 4 native

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native symmetrical sessile barnacles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Pacific Acorn Barnacle Balanus glandula 12,679 observations
  • Pink Volcano Barnacle Tetraclita rubescens 6,206 observations
  • Little Brown Barnacle Chthamalus dalli 2,670 observations
  • Chthamalus fissus 249 observations
  • Armatobalanus nefrens 2 observations

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