Species list, Checklist of Suborder Balanomorpha (Acorn barnacles) for Aldabra Atoll (Aldabra Group, Seychelles)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Suborder Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916 (Acorn barnacles)
and region Aldabra Atoll (Aldabra Group, Seychelles)

Class	Maxillopoda Dahl, 1956 Maxillopods	21 28 26	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Thecostraca Gruvel, 1905	7 10 8	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Cirripedia Burmeister, 1834 Barnacles	7 10 8	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Thoracica Darwin, 1854 Barnacles	7 10 8	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Sessilia Lamarck, 1818 Acorn barnacles, Sessile barnacles	5 7 6	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Balanomorpha Pilsbry, 1916 Acorn barnacles	5 7 6	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Aldabra Atoll
5 Families width 6 Species

Chelonibiidae Pilsbry, 1916	Turtle barnacle	1	Species	Taxom
Balanidae Leach, 1806		1	Species	Taxom
Platylepadidae Newman & Ross, 1976	Turtle barnacle	2	Species	Taxom
Tetraclitidae Gruvel, 1903		1	Species	Taxom
Chthamalidae Darwin, 1854		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Aldabra Atoll
7 Genera with 6 Species

Chelonibia Leach, 1758		1	Species	Taxom
Megabalanus Hoek, 1854		1	Species	Taxom
Platylepas Gray, 1798		1	Species	Taxom
Stomatolepas Pilsbry, 1840		1	Species	Taxom
Tesseropora Pilsbry, 1921		1	Species	Taxom
Tetrachthamalus Newman, 1967		1	Species	Taxom
Tetraclita Schumacher, 1817		0	Species	Taxom

Species list for Aldabra Atoll
6 Species

Chelonibia testudinaria Linnaeus, 1758	Turtle Barnacle
Megabalanus ajax Darwin, 1854
Platylepas hexastylos Fabricius, 1798	Mountain ninebark
Stomatolepas elegans Costa, 1840
Tesseropora wireni Nilsson-Cantell, 1921
Tetrachthamalus oblitteratus Newman, 1967

Subnodes of Balanomorpha with occurrences in Aldabra Atoll

Superfamily	Balanoidea Leach, 1817	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Chthamaloidea Darwin, 1854	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Coronuloidea Leach, 1817	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Tetraclitoidea Gruvel, 1903	1 2 1	Family Genera Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Balanomorpha at artfakta.se
Balanomorpha at dyntaxa.se
Balanomorpha at itis.gov
Balanomorpha at marinespecies.org