SACCULINIDAE LILLJEBORG 1861

Høeg, Jens T., Noever, Christoph, Rees, David J., Crandall, Keith A. & Glenner, Henrik, 2020, A new molecular phylogeny-based taxonomy of parasitic barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190, pp. 632-653 : 643

FAMILY SACCULINIDAE LILLJEBORG 1861 , AMENDED

Type genus: Sacculina Thompson, 1836 .

Type species: Sacculina carcini Thompson, 1836 .

Diagnosis: By the molecular data. Externa laterally compressed. Mantle opening more or less opposite stalk, situated on the anterior margin or displaced to the left side. Thin dorsal mesentery only, extending from the stalk to the mantle opening, but often shorter or absent. Colleteric glands with a number of branched tubes, situated in the central part of the lateral surface of the visceral mass. Receptacles placed either dorsally or far posteriorly in the visceral mass, or in the basal region of the stalk (from Øksnebjerg, 2000).