# Octomeris

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{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Octomeris angulosa - inat 34781589.jpg
| image_caption = ''Octomeris angulosa'', eightshell barnacle, South Africa
| taxon = Octomeris
| authority = Sowerby, 1825
}}

'''''Octomeris''''' is a genus of star barnacles in the family [Chthamalidae](/source/Chthamalidae). There are at least three described species in ''Octomeris''.<ref name=gbif/><ref name=worms/><ref name=Chan2021/>

==Species==
These species belong to the genus ''Octomeris'':
* ''[Octomeris angulosa](/source/Octomeris_angulosa)'' <small>(Sowerby, 1825)</small> (eightshell barnacle)
* ''[Octomeris brunnea](/source/Octomeris_brunnea)'' <small>Darwin, 1854</small>
* ''[Octomeris intermedia](/source/Octomeris_intermedia)'' <small>Nilsson-Cantell, 1921</small>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=gbif>
{{Cite web| title=''Octomeris''
| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/3255331
| website=GBIF
| access-date=2021-08-31
}}</ref>

<ref name=worms>
{{Cite web| title=World Register of Marine Species, genus ''Octomeris''
| url=http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395010
| access-date=2021-08-31
}}</ref>

<ref name=Chan2021>
{{Cite journal
| title = The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms
| date = 2021
| last1 = Chan | first1 = Benny K. K.
| last2 = Dreyer | first2 = Niklas
| last3 = Gale | first3 = Andy S.
| last4 = Glenner | first4 = Henrik
| last5 = Ewers-Saucedo | first5 = Christine
| last6 = Pérez-Losada | first6 = Marcos
| last7 = Kolbasov | first7 = Gregory A.
| last8 = Crandall | first8 = Keith A.
| last9 = Høeg | first9 = Jens T.
| display-authors = 4
| journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
| volume = 193
| issue = 3
| pages = 789–846
| doi = 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160| doi-access = free
| hdl = 11250/2990967
| hdl-access = free
}}</ref>
}}

==External links==
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Category:Barnacles

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