Parthenopea Kossmann, 1874

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

Genera: Parthenopea Kossmann, 1874 (two spp.).

Remarks: At present, the genus contains only two similar species, Parthenopea subterranea Kossmann, 1874 and Parthenopea australis Lützen et al., 2009 , but these are widely separated geographically ( Lützen et al., 2009). Parthenopea was formerly included in Peltogastridae , but was moved to a new family by Rybakov & Høeg (2013) owing to morphological peculiarities. The present molecular analysis clearly supports the family status, because Parthenopea is placed separate from both our redefined Peltogastridae and the new family Peltogasterellidae .