Kingdom Animalia Infraclass Cirripedia Higher classification Barnacle Order Kentrogonida | Subphylum Crustacea Phylum Arthropoda Rank Family Subclass Thecostraca | |
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Similar Barnacle, Sacculina, Crustacean, Sacculina carcini, Rhizocephala | ||
The Sacculinidae are a family of barnacles belonging to the bizarre parasitic and highly apomorphic superorder Rhizocephala, and therein to the less diverse of the two orders, the Kentrogonida. The Sacculinidae are one of the two larger families of Rhizocephala (which are both in the Kentrogonida), containing seven genera:
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