Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda
               --The most diverse animal phyla featuring a segmented body and appendages, and a chitinous exoskeleton

Subphylum: Crustacea
            --a large grouping of primarily aquatic arthropods

Class: Cirripedia
            --a group of about 900 species of sessile marine animals commonly called barnacles

Order: Thoracia
            --A grouping of free-living and commensal barnacles all of which have six pairs of called  cirri which are used for               suspension feeding

Suborder: Balanomorpha
            --A group of symmetrical, stalkless barnacles with a wall and pairs of movable terga and scuta

Family: Balanidae

Genus: Balanus

Species: B. glandula (Darwin)
 

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Leah Behrends, 2002.