(Hancock, 1849)

Description:
Tiny, burrowing, shell-less cirripedes. Mantle enclosed in a chitinous sac, rounded, fixed to side of burrows, opens by a slit. Prosoma with four pairs of cirri. First cirri biramous maxillipeds, remaining three pairs are uniramous and with only four segments. Gonochoristic, dwarf males settle in or near the female. Cyprid with six pairs of biramous thoracopods.

Habitat:
Occupies burrows in whelk shells (Buccinum and Neptunea ) inhabit by the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus . Burrows open on the surface of the columella of the body whorl of the shell; opening elongated and rounded at one end. Sublittoral.

Distribution:
Southern Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Crustacea
Subclass Cirripedia
Order Acrothoracica
Family Alcipidae
Genus Trypetesa
Species lampas

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Trypetesa lampas Hancock, 1849

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this species

Isaac, M.J. & J. Moyse, 1990. Crustacea I: Entomostraca. In: The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe (eds. Hayward and Ryland, 1990). Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Nilsson-Cantell, C.-A., 1978. Cirripedia Thoracica and Acrothoracica. Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia, 5.

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