PICTORIAL GUIDE
TO THE ORDER PHACOPIDA
last revised 10 September 2005 by S. M. Gon III


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Suborder Calymenina
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Here are representative members of the families of Calymenina:

Bathycheilus
Bathycheilidae
Bavarilla
Bavarillidae
Prionocheilus
Pharostomatidae
bathycheilus

bavarila
prionocheilus



Parahomalonotus
Homalonotidae
Trimerus
Homalonotidae
Calymene
Calymenidae
parahomolonotus
trimerus
calymene

Compare the above pictorial approach to the purely narrative description below:

Suborder Calymenina

Cephalon: semicircular to subtriangular, typically with gonatoparian sutures (a few opisthoparian, e.g., Bathycheilidae, primitive Homalonotidae); glabella narrowing forwards; eyes holochroal, often small; hypostome conterminant, rostral plate present.
Thorax: 11 – 13 (typically 13), segments with rounded tips.
Pygidium: semicircular or triangular, without spinose margin.
Superfamilies/Families: Calymenoidea/Bathycheilidae, Bavarillidae, Calymenidae, Pharostomatidae, Homalonotidae
Representative Genera: Bathycheilus, Bavarilla, Calymene, Diacalymene, Flexicalymene, Plaesiacomia, Parahomalonotus, Homalonotus, Trimerus.

PHACOPIDA includes three Suborders

Phacopina

Reedops
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Calymenina

Calymene
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Cheirurina

Cheirurus
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