Crustacea: Cirripedia and Facetotecta

• Main Author: Southward, Eve C.
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2017
• Subjects: North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199233267.003.0024

This chapter describes the taxonomy of Cirripedia and Facetotecta, two crustacean infraclasses of the subclass Thecostraca. The larvae of the Cirripedia and Facetotecta are fairly common in the plankton of the North Atlantic. The chapter covers their life cycle, ecology, and general morphology. It includes a section that indicates the systematic placement of the taxon described within the tree of life, and lists the key marine representative illustrated in the chapter (usually to genus or family level). This section also provides information on the taxonomic authorities responsible for the classification adopted, recent changes which might have occurred, and lists relevant taxonomic sources.