In the past, Anelasmatidae has been considered a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

barnacle A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in eros ...

s of the

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

Lepadiformes Lepadiformes is an order of crustaceans belonging to the class Maxillopoda. Families: * Anelasmatidae Gruvel, 1905 * Heteralepadidae Nilsson-Cantell, 1921 * Koleolepadidae Hiro, 1933 * Lepadidae Darwin, 1852 * Malacolepadidae Hiro, 1937 * Mic ...

. Research published in 2021 by Chan et al. resulted in the sole genus of this family,

Anelasma ''Anelasma'' is a monotypic genus of goose barnacles that live as parasites on various shark hosts. Taxonomy The genus ''Anelasma'' contains a single species, ''Anelasma squalicola''. The nominal species, however, has a very broad distribution ...

, being moved to the family

Pollicipedidae Pollicipedidae is a family of goose barnacles. Genera These genera belong to the family Pollicipedidae: * '' Anelasma'' Darwin, 1852 * ''Capitulum capitulum (plural capitula) may refer to: *the Latin word for chapter ** an index or list of ch ...

, and this family is no longer used.

References

Obsolete arthropod taxa Barnacles {{maxillopoda-stub