ASCOTHORACIDA

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 : 822

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5676448
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scientific name	ASCOTHORACIDA
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SUBCLASS ASCOTHORACIDA LACAZE- DUTHIERS, 1880

Diagnosis: Bivalved crustaceans, with diverticula of midgut and gonads in carapace. Body generally with 11 free trunk segments, first six with biramous thoracopods, seventh with biramous or uniramous penis in both sexes (vestigial in females), last with moveable unsegmented furcal rami. Antennules four- to six-segmented, with claw guard and claw on terminal segment. Conical labrum surrounds piercing mouthparts. Parasites of echinoderms and anthozoans.

Comment: Grygier (1987a) provided a comprehensive review on the taxonomy of the Ascothoracida .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Maxillopoda
Order	Ascothoracida

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