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Lithoglyptidae Aurivillius 1892

  • 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

Family LITHOGLYPTIDAE Aurivillius, 1892

Lithoglyptidae Aurivillius, 1892: 133.— Kolbasov 2009: 239.— Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov 2014: 13.

Diagnosis. Females with well-developed opercular bars, comb collar, thoracic lappets and mouth appendages; twosegmented protopod mouth cirri, biramous multi-annulated terminal cirri, caudal appendages present in some species, intestine with anus. Dwarf males pear-shaped, with pair of lobes at base of attachment antennules (Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014).

Remarks: Consist of three subfamilies: Berndtiinae, Lithoglyptinae and Kochlorininae, all present in South Africa.

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
Aurivillius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Pygophora
Family
Lithoglyptidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Lithoglyptidae Aurivillius, 1892 sec. Botha & Griffiths, 2021

References

  • Aurivillius, C. W. S. (1892) Neue Cirripeden aus dem Atlantischen, Indischen und Stillen Ocean. Koniglich Vetenskapakademiens Forhandlingar, 3, 123 - 134.
  • 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.