NEOVERRUCIDAE Newman

Newman, William A., 2000, A new genus and species of barnacle (Cirripedia, Verrucomorpha) associated with vents of the Lau Back-Arc Basin: its gross morphology, inferred first juvenile stage and affinities, Zoosystema 22 (1), pp. 71-84 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5391395
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13993581
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0381B717-FFB4-D020-FF3E-FF7278FD9EA8
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scientific name	NEOVERRUCIDAE Newman
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Family NEOVERRUCIDAE Newman in Newman & Hessler, 1989 (Recent)

DIAGNOSIS. — Distinguished from the extinct Proverrucidae and extant Verrucidae in having a primary wall elevated above the substratum by basal whorls of imbricating plates and an operculum including a median latus at least in juveniles ( Newman 1989: 268).

References

Newman W. A. & Hessler R. R. 1989. - A new abyssal hydrothermal verrucomorphan (Cirripedia; Sessilia): The most primitive living sessile barnacle. San Diego Society of Natural History Transactions 21 (16): 259 - 273.

Newman W. A. 1989. - Juvenile ontogeny and metamorphosis in the most primitive living sessile barnacle, Neoverruca, from an abyssal hydrothermal spring. Bulletin of Marine Science 45 (2): 467 - 477.