Chirona
| Chirona | |
|---|---|
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| Chirona hameri, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Order: | Balanomorpha |
| Family: | Balanidae |
| Subfamily: | |
| Genus: | Chirona Gray, 1835 |
Chirona is a genus of acorn barnacles in the family Balanidae. There are about six described species in Chirona.[1][2][3]
Species[]
These species belong to the genus Chirona:
- (Pilsbry, 1907)
- Chirona hameri (Ascanius, 1767)
- (Sowerby, 1840)
- (Sowerby, 1846)
- † (Withers, 1923)
- † (Sowerby, 1846)
References[]
- ^ "Chirona". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- ^ "World Register of Marine Species, genus Chirona". Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- ^ Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; et al. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160.
External links[]
Media related to Chirona at Wikimedia Commons
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