Lernaeodiscidae

The Lernaeodiscidae are a family of parasitic barnacles belonging to the bizarre and highly apomorphic superorder Rhizocephala, and therein to the less diverse of the two orders, the Kentrogonida. The Lernaeodiscidae are one of the smallish families of Rhizocephala, though the only one among the Kentrogonida (which otherwise contain the two larger rhizocephalan families). The family contains three genera: Lernaeodiscus Müller, 1862, Septodiscus Van Baal, 1937 and Triangulus Smith, 1906.[1]

Lernaeodiscidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Hexanauplia
Subclass:
Thecostraca
Infraclass:
Cirripedia
Order:
Kentrogonida
Family:
Lernaeodiscidae

Boschma, 1928

Species
  • Lernaeodiscus Müller, 1862
    • Lernaeodiscus bilobatus Boschma, 1925
    • Lernaeodiscus ingolfi Boschma, 1928
    • Lernaeodiscus okadai Van Baal, 1937
    • Lernaeodiscus porcellanae Müller, 1862
    • Lernaeodiscus pusillus Boschma, 1950
    • Lernaeodiscus schmitti Reinhard, 1950
    • Lernaeodiscus squamiferae Pérez, 1922
    • Lernaeodiscus strigosae Smith, 1906
    • Lernaeodiscus tableta Boyko & Harvey, 2000
    • Lernaeodiscus triangularis Lützen
  • Septodiscus Van Baal, 1937
    • Septodiscus flabellum Van Baal, 1937
  • Triangulus Smith, 1906
    • Triangulus boschmai Brinkman, 1936
    • Triangulus cornutus (Van Baal, 1937)
    • Triangulus galatheae (Norman & Scott, 1906)
    • Triangulus munidae Smith, 1906
    • Triangulus papilio (Kossmann, 1872)

References
  1. Geoff Boxshall (2010). M. Schotte; C. B. Boyko; N. L. Bruce; G. C. B. Poore; S. Taiti; G. D. F. Wilson (eds.). "Lernaeodiscidae". World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 27, 2010.


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