Family Cryptophialidae Gerstaecker, 1870
- Cryptophialidae Gerstaecker, A. 1870. Die Klassen und Ordnungen der Arthropoden wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Fünfter Band, erste Abtheilung. Crustacea (Erste Hälfte). pp. 513-624 in Gerstaecker, A. (ed.). Dr. H.G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Liepzig & Heidelberg : C.F. Winter'sche Verlagshandlung 1320 pp. 50 pls. [The Lieferung comprising pp. 513-624 appeared in 1870 according to notes on a copy of this work at the Zoological Museum, Vienna. Whole work usually cited as Gerstaecker (1866-1879) with 1320 pp. and 50 pls] [532].
Diagnosis
Alimentary canal with gut teeth (gizzard); mouth cirrus atrophied or absent; labrum large, attenuated relative to rest of weak mouthparts; burrow aperture nearly round, slightly tapered; 3 or 4 paris of terminal cirri; caudal appendage absent; lateral bars present; free cyprid larva only.
Diagnosis References
Tomlinson, J.T. 1969. The burrowing barnacles (Cirripedia: Order Acrothoracica). United States National Museum Bulletin 296: 1-161
History of changes
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