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Clistosaccidae
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Clistosaccidae

Clistosaccidae is a family of parasitic barnacles belonging to the bizarre and highly apomorphic superorder Rhizocephala, which is part of the more diverse of the two orders, the Akentrogonida.

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1 branches of this family, most-observed first

Sylon

genusSylon

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 996529.