Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Thecostraca > Subclass Cirripedia > Infraclass Rhizocephala

Peltogastridae Lilljeborg, 1861

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

Lernaeodiscidae Boschma, 1928 synonym

Children

Galatheascus Boschma, 1929
Lernaeodiscus Müller, 1862
Paratriangulus Høeg & Glenner in Høeg, Noever, Rees, Crandall & Glenner, 2019
Peltogaster Rathke, 1842
Septosaccus Duboscq, 1912
Tortugaster Reinhard, 1948
Trachelosaccus Boschma, 1928

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: ナガフクロムシ科

Literature

original description

Lilljeborg, W. (1861). Supplément au mémoire sur les genres Liriope et Peltogaster, H. Rathke. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis, Seriei Tertiae. 3: 74-102, pl. 6.

basis of record

Boxshall, G. (2001). Cirripedia - parasitic Rhizocephala, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 283-284

additional source

Martin, J.W., & Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA (USA). 124 pp.

additional source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

taxonomy source

Chan, B. K. K.; Dreyer, N.; Gale, A. S.; Glenner, H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C.; Pérez-Losada, M.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Crandall, K. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2021). The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Genbank

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Citation

Boyko, C.B. (2025). World List of Rhizocephala. Peltogastridae Lilljeborg, 1861. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134763

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2019-12-04 by Christopher B. Boyko

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