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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Thecostraca
Subclassis: Cirripedia
Superordo: Thoracica
Ordo: Sessilia
Subordo: Verrucomorpha

Familia: Verrucidae
Genus: Verruca
Species (11 + 16†): V. cookei – V. gibbosa – V. jago – V. minuta – V. mitra – V. scrippsae – V. sewelli – V. spengleri – V. stroemia – V. vertica – V. withersi – †V. alabamensis – †V. alaskana – †V. digitali – †V. gailgoedertae – †V. hermi – †V. jagti – †V. koikei – †V. punica – †V. pusilla – †V. rocana – †V. sauria – †V. sorrellae – †V. steenstrupi – †V. tasmanica – †V. veneta – †V. vietus

[Source: WoRMS]
Name

Verruca Schumacher, 1817: 91
Synonyms

Ochthosia Ranzani, 1817 (junior synonym)

References
Primary references

Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un nouveau systeme des habitations des vers testaces: avec XII planches. A. Copenhague: De l'Imprimerie de Mr. le directeur Schultz. [In French] BHL Reference page.
Ranzani, A.C. 1817: Osservazioni su i Balanidi Parte II. Opuscoli Scientifici, Bologna 1: 269-276. [In Italian] Google Books Reference page.

Additional references

Buckeridge, J.S. 2011: Taphonomy and systematics of a new Late Cretaceous verrucid barnacle (Cirripedia, Thoracica) from Canterbury, New Zealand. Palaeontology, 54 (2): 365–372. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00998.x
Carriol, R-P; Schneider, S. 2013: New species of fossil sessile barnacles (Verrucidae, Tetraclitidae) from the Pliocene of central Chile. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen, 270(3): 233–244. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0365 Reference page.

Verruca is a genus of asymmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Verrucidae. There are about 20 described species in Verruca, around half of them extinct.[1][2][3]
Species

These species belong to the genus Verruca:

Verruca cookei Pilsbry, 1928
Verruca gibbosa Hoek, 1883
Verruca jago Buckeridge, 1997
Verruca laevigata (Sowerby, 1827)
Verruca minuta Young, 2000
Verruca mitra Hoek, 1907
Verruca scrippsae Zullo, 1964
Verruca sewelli Stubbings, 1936
Verruca spengleri Darwin, 1854
Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776) (wart barnacle)
Verruca vertica
† Verruca alaskana Pilsbry, 1943
† Verruca gailgoedertae Perreault & Buckeridge, 2019
† Verruca koikei Tanaka et al. in Koike et al., 2006
† Verruca prisca Bosquet, 1854
† Verruca punica Buckeridge & Jagt, 2008
† Verruca pusilla Bosquet, 1857
† Verruca sorrellae Perreault & Buckeridge, 2019
† Verruca steenstrupi Brünnich Nielsen, 1912
† Verruca tasmanica Buckeridge, 1983
† Verruca veneta Carriol & Diemi, 2005
† Verruca withersi Kruizinga, 1939

References

"Verruca". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
"World Register of Marine Species, genus Verruca". Retrieved 2021-08-31.
Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; et al. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160.

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