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Lithoglyptida Kolbasov, Newman & Hoeg 2009

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
  • 2. Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5791 - 4725

Description

Order LITHOGLYPTIDA Kolbasov, Newman & Høeg (Cited in Kolbasov, 2009)

Lithoglyptida Kolbasov, Newman & Høeg in Kolbasov, 2009: 239.— Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov 2014: 12.

Diagnosis. Females with wide aperture, sac-like mantle, operculum without a neck, with opercular bar less than aperture length, well-developed mouth cirri, large, saddle-like labrum and lack special gastric mill at end of stomach (Kolbasov, 2009; Chan, Kolbasov & Cheang, 2012; Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014). Thorax without long dorsal processes. Burrow shape elongated. Males have surfaces with several cuticular denticles and lack mantle teeth. Cypris larvae with developed thorax and thoracopods with an unperforated carapace with fronto-lateral pores.

Remarks. Consists of two families, the Lithoglyptidae and Trypetesidae. No members of the Trypetesidae known from South Africa (although reported from south-west of Madagascar).

Notes

Published as part of Botha, Thomas P. A. & Griffiths, Charles L., 2021, South African Acrothoracica (Crustacea: Cirripedia), pp. 45-78 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4635765

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Kolbasov, Newman & Hoeg
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lithoglyptida
Taxon rank
order
Taxonomic concept label
Lithoglyptida Kolbasov, 2009 sec. Botha & Griffiths, 2021

References

  • Kolbasov, G. A. (2009) Acrothoracica, burrowing crustaceans. KMK Scientific Press Ltd, Moscow, 452 pp.
  • Chan, B. K. K., Hsieh, W-P. & Kolbasov, G. A. (2014) Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Barnacles. Vol. III. Cirripedia: Acrothoracica. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 107 pp.
  • Chan, B. K. K., Kolbasov, G. A. & Cheang, C. C. (2012) Cryptic diversity of the acrothoracican barnacle Armatoglyptes taiwanus in the Indo-Pacific waters, with description of a new species from the Mozambique Channel collected from the MAIN- BAZA cruise. Zoosystema, 34 (1), 5 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.5252 / z 2012 n 1 a 1