A checklist of the Cirripedia of the South China Sea

A checklist of published records of the barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracica) o f the South China Sea is presented, with 315 species belonging to 76 genera and 21 families recorded. The South China Sea cirripede fauna is tropical and subtropical in nature. A small group of species exhibits cosmopolitan d istributions but the majority of species are either widely distributed in t he Indo-West Pacific faunal province or in the Indo-Australian sub-faunal p rovince. A small group of species have western Pacific affinities. Another small group of species is restricted to the South China Sea, and there is a lso an endemic element of the Sino-Japanese region.