MEGATREMAOTINAE Holthuis, 1982

Pitriana, Pipit, Jones, Diana S., Corbari, Laure & Rintelen, Kristina von, 2020, New insights gained from museum collections: Deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collected during the Karubar expedition in 1991, Zoosystematics and Evolution 96 (2), pp. 649-698 : 649

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scientific name	MEGATREMAOTINAE Holthuis, 1982
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Treatment

Subfamily MEGATREMAOTINAE Holthuis, 1982

Bosciinae Newman & Ross, 1976: 59.

Megatrematinae Holthuis, 1982: 319.

Diagnosis.

Wall of four plates wholly concrescent; opercular valves normal; tergum with weakly developed lateral depressor muscle crests or crests lacking; when shell concrescent, sheath with paired sulci.

Type genus.

Megatrema Sowerby, 1823, by original designation ( Holthuis 1982).

References

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Maxillopoda
SubClass	Thecostraca
SuperOrder	Thoracica
Order	Sessilia
SubOrder	Balanomorpha
SuperFamily	Balanoidea
Family	Pyrgomatidae