Tags: Crustacean.

Thompsoniidae is a family of parasitic barnacles. They belong to the bizarre and highly apomorphic superorder Rhizocephala and therein to the more diverse of the two orders the Akentrogonida.The Thompsoniidae are one of the smallish families of Rhizocephala as typical for the Akentrogonida.

class
Barnacle, Thecostraca, Maxillopoda
kingdom
Animal
order
Akentrogonida
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
Thompsomiidae (lapsus)

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