Tags: Crustacean.

Peltogastridae is a family of barnacles. They belong to the bizarre parasitic and highly apomorphic superorder Rhizocephala and therein to the less diverse of the two orders the Kentrogonida. The Peltogastridae are by far the largest family of Rhizocephala. They comprise 14 genera:

class
Barnacle, Thecostraca, Maxillopoda
kingdom
Animal
order
Kentrogonida
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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