South African Acrothoracica (Crustacea: Cirripedia)
Author
Botha, Thomas P. A.
Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
Author
Griffiths, Charles L.
0000-0001-5791-4725
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
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-24
4949
1
45
78
journal article
7499
10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.3
48083722-1c8f-4f45-aa00-9a0e19f22a42
1175-5326
4635765
69B5BF91-86F6-4AD6-94D1-0EA3D6FBBDA3
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
.