Weltneria Berndt, 1907
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.3 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4635806 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0383A228-FFD3-FFB1-FF6E-EEF6FD7004A3 |
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Plazi |
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Genus Weltneria Berndt, 1907 View in CoL View at ENA
Weltneria Berndt, 1907: 289 View in CoL .
Diagnosis. Females with five pairs of biramous terminal cirri, two-segmented caudal appendages. This is considered plesiomorphic, as this represents the ground pattern for all thecostracans ( Kolbasov & Newman, 2005). Lateral bars weak or absent, orificial knob absent. Dwarf males pear-shaped, tapering towards the top, no lateral projections, attachment antennules with stalk absent ( Chan, Hsieh & Kolbasov, 2014).
Remarks. At present, there are 12 Weltneria species globally ( Kolbasov, Chan & Cheng, 2017). Two of these occur in South Africa, of which W. spinosa is endemic.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Weltneria Berndt, 1907
| Botha, Thomas P. A. & Griffiths, Charles L. 2021 |
Weltneria
| Berndt, W. 1907: 289 |