Tags: Crustacean.
Catophragminae is a subfamily of acorn barnacles. This subfamily includes the genera Catophragmus Sowerby 1826 and Catolasmus Ross & Newman 2001. Species included all have a calcareous basis carinate imbricating plates and with long multi-segmented caudal appendage.Originally Utinomi established Catophragminae as a subfamily of the Chthamalidae to include those genera with imbricating plate whorls.