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Rhizolepadidae Zevina 1980
Description
FAMILY RHIZOLEPADIDAE ZEVINA, 1980
Diagnosis: Parasitic on polychaetes; without shell plates; cirri reduced and non-functional; a gut exists but is non-functional; the peduncle extends as a ramified, nutrient-absorbing root system into the host.
Rhizolepas Day, 1939 (two species)
Notes
Published as part of Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, pp. 789-846 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 on page 830, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160, http://zenodo.org/record/5637275
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Rhizolepadidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scalpellomorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Zevina
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhizolepadidae Zevina, 1980 sec. Chan, Dreyer, Gale, Glenner, Ewers-Saucedo, Pérez-Losada, Kolbasov, Crandall & Høeg, 2021
References
- Day JH. 1939. A new cirripede parasite - Rhizolepas annelidicola, nov. gen. et sp. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 151: 54 - 78.