| Catophragmus | |
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| Water animal known as catophragmus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Order: | Balanomorpha |
| Family: | Catophragmidae |
| Genus: | Catophragmus Sowerby, 1826[1]: 326 |
| Species: | C. imbricatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Catophragmus imbricatus Sowerby, 1827
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Catophragmus is the originally named genus of the family Catophragmidae. At present, it is monotypical. It is a shallow water acorn barnacle of the Tropical Western Atlantic and Caribbean characterized by small accessory imbricating plates surrounding the base of the shell wall.
- ^ Sowerby, G. B. (1826). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in Conchology and Geology, with original Plates. London.