TABLE 2 in A new genus and species of barnacle (Cirripedia, Verrucomorpha) associated with vents of the Lau Back-Arc Basin: its gross morphology, inferred first juvenile stage and affinities

<p>TABLE 2. &mdash; Comparison between the primordial plates of the earliest juvenile stages of the principal suborders of thoracic Cirripedia (See Fig. 6 for corresponding figures and text for a full explanation).</p><table><tbody><tr><th><b>Taxon/Character</b></th><th><b>Carinal proportions</b></th><th><b>Carinal of position</b></th><th><b>Terga and scuta of each side</b></th></tr></tbody><tbody><tr><th>Lepadomorpha (Fig. 6A)</th><td>Higher than wide and longer than terga</td><td>Extending up between terga</td><td>Symmetrical</td></tr><tr><th>Scalpellomorpha (Fig. 6B)</th><td>Higher than wide and nearly as long as terga</td><td>Extending up between terga</td><td>Symmetrical</td></tr><tr><th>Verrucomorpha</th></tr><tr><th>Neoverrucidae (Fig. 6C)</th><td>Higher than wide and shorter than terga</td><td>Extending up between terga</td><td>Initially symmetrical</td></tr><tr><th>X-juvenile (Fig. 6D)</th><td>Wider than high, shorter than terga and perhaps displaced to one side</td><td>Not extending up between terga</td><td>Scuta if not terga initially symmetrical</td></tr><tr><th>Verrucidae (Fig. 6E)</th><td>About as wide as high, shorter than terga and displaced to one side</td><td>Not extending up between terga</td><td>Distinctly asymmetrical</td></tr><tr><th>Balanomorpha (Fig. 6F)</th><td>Higher than wide</td><td>Not extending up between terga</td><td>Symmetrical</td></tr></tbody></table>