Sacculinidae

Sacculinidae
	Externae (brown lumps) of two mature female Sacculina individuals on a male Liocarcinus holsatus (Portunidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Hexanauplia
Subclass:	Thecostraca
Infraclass:	Cirripedia
Superorder:	Rhizocephala
Order:	Kentrogonida
Family:	Sacculinidae; Lilljeborg, 1860

The Sacculinidae are a family of barnacles belonging to the bizarre parasitic and highly apomorphic superorder Rhizocephala, and therein to the less diverse of the two orders, the Kentrogonida. The Sacculinidae are one of the two larger families of Rhizocephala (which are both in the Kentrogonida), containing seven genera:^[1]

Drepanorchis Boschma, 1927
Heterosaccus Smith, 1906
Loxothylacus Boschma, 1928
Polyascus Glenner, Lützen & Takahashi, 2003
Ptychascus Boschma, 1933
Sacculina Thompson, 1836
Sesarmaxenos Annandale, 1911

References

^ Geoff Boxshall (2010). "Sacculinidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 27, 2010.

External links

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[1] Geoff Boxshall (2010). "Sacculinidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 27, 2010.

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