The Balanomorpha are an order of barnacles, containing familiar sessile shelled acorn barnacles of the seashore. The order contains these families:

• Austrobalanidae Newman & Ross, 1976

• Balanidae Leach, 1817 (acorn barnacles)

• Bathylasmatidae Newman & Ross, 1971

• Catophragmidae Utinomi, 1968

• Chelonibiidae Pilsbry, 1916 (turtle barnacles)

• Chionelasmatidae Buckeridge, 1983

• Chthamalidae Darwin, 1854 (star barnacles)

• Coronulidae Leach, 1817 (whale barnacles)

• Elminiidae Foster, 1982

• Pachylasmatidae Utinomi, 1968

• Pyrgomatidae Gray, 1825 (coral barnacle)

• Tetraclitidae Gruvel, 1903

• Waikalasmatidae Ross & Newman, 2001

• † Pachydiadematidae Chan et al., 2021

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