• Source: Heterosaccus

Heterosaccus is a genus of barnacles in infraclass Rhizocephala. Like other taxa in this group, they parasitize crabs. Geoffroy Smith circumscribed the genus in 1906; he initially only included H. hians. Smith circumscribed a genus distinct from Sacculina due to a difference of the mesentery; in Heterosaccus, the mesentery does not stretch down to the mantle opening but rather only is present on the ring of attachment.




Species


As of 2017, WoRMS recognizes the following fifteen species.




References






Further reading

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Heterosaccus
• Pugettia producta
• Sacculinidae
• Charybdis longicollis
• Charybdis (crab)
• Lessepsian migration
• List of Cirripedia genera
• List of Lessepsian migrant species