Heteralepadidae Nilsson-Cantell, 1921
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.3.8 |
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Heteralepadidae Nilsson-Cantell, 1921 |
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Family Heteralepadidae Nilsson-Cantell, 1921 View in CoL View at ENA
Thick walled, globular capitulum supported by stout peduncle infrequently several times its length; both may be relatively smooth, wrinkled or bumpy; capitulum may support several protrusions or a crest along carinal margin; aperture may be low, inconspicuous, with smooth or sometime protuberant margins that are rarely flaring; cirri generally ctenopod or acanthopod, rarely lasiopod, second generally found in symbionts of large invertebrates rather than free-living forms. Family presently consisting of two genera, Heteralepas Pilsbry, 1907 and Paralepas Pilsbry, 1907 .
Remarks. When Pilsbry (1907) revised Alepas , he extracted two distinct but related taxa from it, the new genera Heteralepas and Paralepas . He placed them in the family Lepadidae , where they remained until 1921. Nilsson-Cantell (1921) noted that these two genera, in addition to lacking calcareous plates, differed from the remaining Lepadidae in the nature of their trophi and cirri and, therefore, proposed a new family for them, the Heteralepadidae .
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