Weltneria Berndt 1907

Genus Weltneria Berndt, 1907 Weltneria Berndt, 1907: 289. Diagnosis. Females with five pairs of biramous terminal cirri, two-segmented caudal appendages. This is considered plesiomorphic, as this represents the ground pattern for all thecostracans (Kolbasov & Newman, 2005). Lateral bars weak or absent, orificial knob absent. Dwarf males pear-shaped, tapering towards the top, no lateral projections, attachment antennules with stalk absent (Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014). Remarks. At present, there are 12 Weltneria species globally (Kolbasov, Chan & Cheng, 2017). Two of these occur in South Africa, of which W. spinosa is endemic.
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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