SACCULINIDAE LILLJEBORG 1861

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 : 826

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5700592
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scientific name	SACCULINIDAE LILLJEBORG 1861
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FAMILY SACCULINIDAE LILLJEBORG 1861 View in CoL View at ENA

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

Comment: This large family is in need of a generic- and species-level revision based on molecular data. Future transfer of species to the Polyascidae is likely.

Host: Brachyura and Callianassidae .

Drepanorchis Boschma, 1927 (five species)

Heterosaccus Smith, 1906 View in CoL (15 species)

Loxothylacus Boschma, 1928 View in CoL (28 species)

Ptychascus Boschma, 1933 View in CoL (two species)

Sacculina Thompson, 1836 View in CoL (125 species)

Sesarmaxenos Annandale, 1911 (two species)

Hoeg JT, Noever C, Rees DA, Crandall KA, Glenner H. 2020. A new molecular-based taxonomy of the parasitic barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala). Zoological Journal of the Linnan Society 190: 632 - 653.

Thompson JV. 1836. Natural history and metamorphosis of an anomalous crustaceous parasite of Carcinus maenas, the Sacculina carcini. Entomological Magazine, London 3: 452 - 456.