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Weltneria Berndt 1907
- 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
Genus Weltneria Berndt, 1907
Weltneria Berndt, 1907: 289.
Diagnosis. Females with five pairs of biramous terminal cirri, two-segmented caudal appendages. This is considered plesiomorphic, as this represents the ground pattern for all thecostracans (Kolbasov & Newman, 2005). Lateral bars weak or absent, orificial knob absent. Dwarf males pear-shaped, tapering towards the top, no lateral projections, attachment antennules with stalk absent (Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014).
Remarks. At present, there are 12 Weltneria species globally (Kolbasov, Chan & Cheng, 2017). Two of these occur in South Africa, of which W. spinosa is endemic.
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lithoglyptidae
- Genus
- Weltneria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pygophora
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Berndt
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Weltneria Berndt, 1907 sec. Botha & Griffiths, 2021
References
- Berndt, W. (1907) Uber das System der Acrothoracica. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 73 (1), 287 - 289.
- Kolbasov, G. A. & Newman, W. A. (2005) Revision of the Lithoglyptidae sensu Tomlinson, 1969 and Lithoglyptes Aurivillius, 1892 (Cirripedia, Acrothoracica), including a new species from Bermuda. Zootaxa, 1013 (1), 35 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1013.1.3
- 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.
- Kolbasov, G. A., Chan, B. K. K. & Cheng, Y. R. (2017) Weltneria acanthostoma sp. nov., a burrowing barnacle (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica) from deep-waters of the South China Sea. Zootaxa, 4290 (3), 591 - 599. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4290.3.12