Thecostraca |
Lithoglyptida |
Lithoglyptidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Demersal. Tropical
Distribution
Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Western Central Pacific: Papua New Guinea.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the superorder Acrothoracica are gonochoric and sexually dimorphic, males are smaller in size. Eggs are brooded in the mantle cavity. Life cycle: Eggs hatch into nauplii which are released into the water when they reach the cypris stage, they then find a suitable substratum afterwhich females metamorphose into adults while the males kept attach to the females before they metamorphose into adults.
Kolbasov, G.A. 2001 A new species of the burrowing barnacle Weltneria bekae (Cirripedia, Acrothoracica) from Papua (New Guinea): Description of external morphology. Entomological Review 81 (Suppl 1):555-563. (Ref. 7428)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Abundance
Life cycleReproductionMaturityFecunditySpawningEggsEgg developmentLarvae PhysiologyOxygen consumption
Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
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