Lithoglyptidae Aurivillius 1892

Family LITHOGLYPTIDAE Aurivillius, 1892 Lithoglyptidae Aurivillius, 1892: 133.— Kolbasov 2009: 239.— Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov 2014: 13. Diagnosis. Females with well-developed opercular bars, comb collar, thoracic lappets and mouth appendages; twosegmented protopod mouth cirri, biramous multi-annulated terminal cirri, caudal appendages present in some species, intestine with anus. Dwarf males pear-shaped, with pair of lobes at base of attachment antennules (Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014). Remarks: Consist of three subfamilies: Berndtiinae, Lithoglyptinae and Kochlorininae, all present in South Africa.
Published as part of Botha, Thomas P. A. & Griffiths, Charles L., 2021, South African Acrothoracica (Crustacea: Cirripedia), pp. 45-78 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/4635765
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