Lepadidae is a
family
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of
goose barnacle
Goose barnacles, also called stalked barnacles or gooseneck barnacles, are filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone. Goose barnacles formerly made up the taxonomic order P ...
s, erected by
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
in 1852.
There are about five genera and more than 20 described species in Lepadidae.
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Genera
These genera belong to the family Lepadidae:
* '' Conchoderma'' von Olfers, 1814 (whale barnacles)
* ''Dosima
''Dosima'' is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae. There are at least two described species in ''Dosima''.
Species
These species belong to the genus ''Dosima'':
* '' Dosima fascicularis'' (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (buoy barnacle)
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'' Gray, 1825
* '' Hyalolepas'' Annandale, 1906
* ''Lepas
''Lepas'' is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.
Species
Species in the genus include:
* ''Lepas anatifera'' Linnaeus, 1758
* '' Lepas anserifera'' Linnaeus, 1767
* ''Lepas australis'' Darwin, 1851
* '' Lepas hilli'' Leach, ...
'' Linnaeus, 1758 (goose barnacles)
* † '' Pristinolepas'' Buckeridge, 1983
References
Barnacles
Crustacean families
Taxa named by Charles Darwin
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