PELTOGASTERELLIDAE HØEG & GLENNER, 2020

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 : 642

FAMILY PELTOGASTERELLIDAE HØEG & GLENNER FAM. NOV.

Type genus: Peltogasterella Krüger, 1912 .

Type species: Peltogasterella sulcata (Lilljeborg, 1859) .

LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:43B04CD0-B6CF-4FAA-89DA-E8A0CD422EFC

Diagnosis: By the molecular data. Cylindrical or semicylindrical colonial externae all connected to a common internal root system; externae produce only one or two broods ( Høeg & Lützen, 1985; Yoshida et al., 2015) and are then replaced by a new generation of externae that do not develop in a one-to-one relationship to the preceding ones.