MALACOLEPADIDAE HIRO, 1937

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, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 789-846 : 830

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700715

persistent identifier

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scientific name

MALACOLEPADIDAE HIRO, 1937
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FAMILY MALACOLEPADIDAE HIRO, 1937

Diagnosis: Parasitic inside bivalves; without shell plates; orifice large; first and second cirri short, and mandibles with six or seven teeth.

Comment: Arcalepas and Malacolepas are found attached to the inside of the shells of the bivalves Arca navicularis Bruguière, 1789 and Cucullaea labiata, (Lightfoot, 1786) respectively.

Arcalepas Jones & Morton, 2009 (one species)

Malacolepas Hiro, 1933 (one species)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Thecostraca

Order

Scalpellomorpha

Family

Malacolepadidae

Loc

MALACOLEPADIDAE HIRO, 1937

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
2021
Loc

Arcalepas

Jones & Morton 2009
2009
Loc

Malacolepas

Hiro 1933
1933
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