The Peltogastridae are a
family of
barnacle
A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in eros ...
s belonging to the bizarre
parasitic and highly
apomorphic
In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy). A synapomorphy is an apomorphy shared by two or more taxa and is therefore hypothesized to have ...
infraclass Rhizocephala. The Peltogastridae are by far the largest family of Rhizocephala. They comprise 14 genera, 3 of which (''Lernaeodiscus'', ''Septodiscus'', and ''Triangulus'') were moved from the family Lernaeodiscidae.
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Genera
These genera belong to the family Peltogastridae:[
* '' Briarosaccus'' Boschma, 1930
* '' Dipterosaccus'' Van Kampen & Boschma, 1925
* '' Galatheascus'' Boschma, 1929
* '' Lernaeodiscus'' Müller, 1862
* '' Ommatogaster'' Yoshida & Osawa, 2011
* '' Paratriangulus'' Høeg & Glenner, 2019
* '' Peltogaster'' Rathke, 1842
* '' Pterogaster'' Van Baal, 1937
* '' Septodiscus'' Van Baal, 1937
* '' Septosaccus'' Duboscq, 1912
* '' Temnascus'' Boschma, 1951
* '' Tortugaster'' Reinhard, 1948
* '' Trachelosaccus'' Boschma, 1928
* '' Triangulopsis'' Guérin-Ganivet, 1911
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References
External links
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Barnacles
Taxa named by Wilhelm Lilljeborg
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