LITHOGLYPTIDAE AURIVILLIUS, 1892

Chan, Benny K. K., Dreyer, Niklas, Gale, Andy S., Glenner, Henrik, Ewers-Saucedo, Christine, Pérez-Losada, Marcos, Kolbasov, Gregory A., Crandall, Keith A. & Høeg, Jens T., 2021, The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193, pp. 789-846 : 824

FAMILY LITHOGLYPTIDAE AURIVILLIUS, 1892

Diagnosis: Monophyletic in molecular analysis. Females with developed opercular bars and comb collar, operculum with rows of massive multifid scales, often associated with opercular pores and papillae; protopod of mouth cirri two-segmented, mouth appendages developed, terminal cirri multisegmented, biramous; caudal appendages present or absent; thoracic lappets developed; intestine with anus. Dwarf males without a pair of lobes at the base of attachment antennules; posterior end with apertural slit.