FAMILY PELTOGASTRIDAE LILLJEBORG, 1861

Diagnosis: As provided by Høeg et al. (2020).

Comment: The family includes most members of the former Lernaeodiscidae, except Triangulus galatheae (Norman & Scott, 1906), which is now in the Triangulidae .

Host: Anomura Galatheoidea and Paguroidea; Gebiidea; Caridea.

Briarosaccus Boschma, 1930 (four species)

Dipterosaccus van Kampen & Boschma, 1925 (two species)

Galatheascus Boschma, 1929 (two species)

Lernaeodiscus Müller, 1862 (eight species)

Ommatogaster Yoshida & Osawa, 2011 (one species)

Paratriangulus Høeg & Glenner, 2019 (one species)

Peltogaster Rathke, 1842 (16 species)

Pterogaster Van Baal, 1937 (two species)

Septodiscus Van Baal, 1937 (one species)

Septosaccus Duboscq, 1912 (four species)

Temnascus Boschma, 1951 (one species)

Tortugaster Reinhard, 1948 (three species)

Trachelosaccus Boschma, 1928 (one species)

Triangulopsis Guerin-Ganivèt, 1911 (one species)