Verrucomorpha

[və‚rü·kə′mȯr·fə]

(invertebrate zoology)

A suborder of the crustacean order Thoracica composed of sessile, asymmetrical barnacles.

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For comparison, we also include one balananoidean species from an entirely different habitat, namely, epibiotic in marine sponges, and a species from the Verrucomorpha, which is the sister group to the Balanomopha.

Cirripede Cypris Antennules: How Much Structural Variation Exists Among Balanomorphan Species from Hard-Bottom Habitats?

Systematically, they cover the acorn barnacles (Thoracica Balanomorpha), the asymmetric barnacles (Verrucomorpha), the paraphyletic assemblage of stalked barnacles (Thoracica Pedunculata), and the parasitic Rhizocephala.

Morphology of cyprid attachment organs compared across disparate barnacle taxa: Does it relate to habitat?

In the superorder Thoracica, dwarf males have so far been reported in the suborders Balanomorpha, Iblomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, and Heteralepadomorpha, but not in Lepadomorpha or Verrucomorpha (Klepal, 1985, 1987; Hoeg, 1995).

Dwarf males of Octolasmis warwickii (Cirripedia: Thoracica): the first example of coexistence of males and hermaphrodites in the suborder Lepadomorpha