Chirona

Chirona
Chirona hameri, Nova Scotia, Canada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Thecostraca
Subclass:	Cirripedia
Order:	Balanomorpha
Family:	Balanidae
Subfamily:	Archaeobalaninae
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:

• Chirona evermanni (Pilsbry, 1907)
• Chirona hameri (Ascanius, 1767)
• Chirona sublaevis (Sowerby, 1840)
• Chirona varians (Sowerby, 1846)
• † Chirona bimanicus (Withers, 1923)
• † Chirona unguiformis (Sowerby, 1846)

References

1. "Chirona". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
2. "World Register of Marine Species, genus Chirona" . Retrieved 2021-09-01.
3. 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. 193 (3): 789–846. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 . hdl: 11250/2990967 .

External links

• Media related to Chirona at Wikimedia Commons