Lissaclita, Gomez-Daglio, Liza & Syoc, Robert Van, 2006

Gomez-Daglio, Liza & Syoc, Robert Van, 2006, A new genus and species of high intertidal barnacle (Cirripedia, Tetraclitidae) from Baja California Sur, México, Zootaxa 1118, pp. 57-68 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.171665
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5676915
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0A7FCD02-707E-FF88-FEB5-FA2CFEFCF8E6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lissaclita
status	gen. nov.

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Genus Lissaclita gen. nov.

Diagnosis: Shell conical to cylindroconical, with four plates, diametric growth, carina with two strongly developed transparietal alae, rostrum with two weakly developed disparietal radii (nontubiferous), parietes with secondarily divided row of tubes lacking transverse septa, membranous basis. Opercular plates and exoskeletal cuticular characters resembling those found in the fourplated barnacles of the Tetraclitidae group.

Type species: Lissaclita melaniae sp. nov.

Etymology: From the Latin liss, smooth; and the Greek clit, a slope or hill. Gender feminine.