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Pollicipedidae
Pollicipedidae is a family of goose barnacles. Genera These genera belong to the family Pollicipedidae: * '' Anelasma'' Darwin, 1852 * ''Capitulum capitulum (plural capitula) may refer to: *the Latin word for chapter ** an index or list of chapters at the head of a gospel manuscript ** a short reading in the Liturgy of the Hours *** derived from which, it is the Latin for the assembly known ...'' Gray, 1825 * '' Pollicipes'' Leach, 1817 References External links * Barnacles Crustacean families {{maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollicipedidae
Pollicipedidae is a family of goose barnacles. Genera These genera belong to the family Pollicipedidae: * '' Anelasma'' Darwin, 1852 * ''Capitulum capitulum (plural capitula) may refer to: *the Latin word for chapter ** an index or list of chapters at the head of a gospel manuscript ** a short reading in the Liturgy of the Hours *** derived from which, it is the Latin for the assembly known ...'' Gray, 1825 * '' Pollicipes'' Leach, 1817 References External links * Barnacles Crustacean families {{maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollicipes Pollicipes
''Pollicipes pollicipes'', known as the goose neck barnacle, goose barnacle or leaf barnacle is a species of goose barnacle, also well known under the taxonomic synonym ''Pollicipes cornucopia''. It is closely related to '' Pollicipes polymerus'', a species with the same common names, but found on the Pacific coast of North America, and to '' Pollicipes elegans'' a species from the coast of Chile. It is found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean and is prized as a delicacy, especially in the Iberian Peninsula. Distribution ''Pollicipes pollicipes'' is chiefly distributed from 48°N to 28°N, along the coasts of France, Spain (including the Canary Islands), Portugal, Morocco, and south to Senegal. The periphery of the species' range also extends as far north as the British Isles, with outlying populations on the south coast of England and possibly in southwestern Ireland, although there are no recent records there. The species is present, but rare, in the Mediterrane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach Royal Society, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. Life and work Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a medical apprenticeship at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Devonshire and Exeter Hospital, studying anatomy and chemistry. By this time he was already collecting marine animals from Plymouth Sound and along the Devon coast. At seventeen he began studying medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, finishing his training at the University of Edinburgh before graduating Doctor of Medicine, MD from the University of St Andrews (where he had never studied). From 1813 Leach concentrated on his zoological interests and was employed as an 'Assistant Librarian' (what would later be called Assistant Keeper) in the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Department of the British Museum, where he had responsibility for the zoological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family ( la, familia, plural ') is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". What belongs to a family—or if a described family should be recognized at all—are proposed and determined by practicing taxonomists. There are no hard rules for describing or recognizing a family, but in plants, they can be characterized on the basis of both vegetative and reproductive features of plant species. Taxonomists often take different positions about descriptions, and there may be no broad consensus across the scientific community for some time. The publishing of new data and opini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Pedunculata, but research has resulted in the classification of stalked barnacles within multiple orders of the infraclass Thoracica. Biology Some species of goose barnacles such as ''Lepas anatifera'' are pelagic and are most frequently found on tidewrack on oceanic coasts. Unlike most other types of barnacles, intertidal goose barnacles (e.g. ''Pollicipes pollicipes'' and '' Pollicipes polymerus'') depend on water motion rather than the movement of their cirri for feeding, and are therefore found only on exposed or moderately exposed coasts. Spontaneous generation In the days before it was realised that birds migrate, it was thought that barnacle geese, ''Branta leucopsis'', developed from this crustacean through spontaneous gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anelasma
''Anelasma'' is a monotypic genus of goose barnacles that live as parasites on various shark hosts. Taxonomy The genus ''Anelasma'' contains a single species, ''Anelasma squalicola''. The nominal species, however, has a very broad distribution and may in fact be a species complex that contain several undescribed species. It has been suggested that ''Anelasma'' diverged from the ancestor it shares with its current closest relatives (the free-living, suspension-feeding species in the genera ''Capitulum'' and '' Pollicipes'') a long time ago. The species may represent the only remaining representative of a previously more numerous clade that made the evolutionary transition from filter-feeding to parasitism. Description left, Velvet belly lanternshark with ''Anelasma'' This barnacle reaches a length of approximately 25 mm. Unlike most barnacles, it has no shell; the outermost integument is its tough, purplish-black mantle, without any calcareous plates. The body protrudes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitulum (genus)
''Capitulum'' is a monotypic genus of sessile marine stalked barnacles. ''Capitulum mitella'' is the only species in the genus. It is commonly known as the Japanese goose barnacle or ''kamenote'' and is found on rocky shores in the Indo-Pacific region. Description ''Capitulum mitella'' has a short leathery stalk or peduncle supporting an upper region or capitulum, the whole being up to long. The peduncle is muscular and contractile and its surface is covered with fine scales. The capitulum is protected by eight large, sheathing scales and a ring of about twenty tiny scales surround the joint of capitulum and peduncle. Inside these scales is a cavity containing the head and thorax of the animal and its appendages. Distribution and habitat ''Capitulum mitella'' occurs in the South China Sea and the East China Sea. It is found attached to rocks in the lower part of the intertidal zone in areas with strong currents. It typically occurs crowded with others in cracks and grooves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollicipes
''Pollicipes'' is a genus of goose barnacles, first described by William Elford Leach in 1817. It comprises four species of marine suspension-feeders. Species These species belong to the genus ''Pollicipes'': * ''Pollicipes caboverdensis'' Fernandes, Cruz & Van Syoc, 2010 * '' Pollicipes elegans'' (Lesson, 1831) (Pacific goose barnacle) * ''Pollicipes pollicipes'' (Gmelin, 1791 n Gmelin, 1788-1792 (goose barnacle) * ''Pollicipes polymerus ''Pollicipes polymerus'', commonly known as the gooseneck barnacle or leaf barnacle, is a species of stalked barnacle. It is found, often in great numbers, on rocky shores on the Pacific coasts of North America. Classification Barnacles are cla ...'' Sowerby, 1833 (gooseneck barnacle) References External links *''Pollicipes polymerus'' Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnacles
A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters. Barnacles are exclusively marine, and tend to live in shallow and tidal waters, typically in erosive settings. They are sessile (nonmobile) and most are suspension feeders, but those in infraclass Rhizocephala are highly specialized parasites on crustaceans. They have four nektonic (active swimming) larval stages. Around 1,000 barnacle species are currently known. The name is Latin, meaning "curl-footed". The study of barnacles is called cirripedology. Description Barnacles are encrusters, attaching themselves temporarily to a hard substrate or a symbiont such as a whale ( whale barnacles), a sea snake ('' Platylepas ophiophila''), or another crustacean, like a crab or a lobster (Rhizocephala). The most common among them, "acorn barnacles" ( Sessilia), are sessile where they grow their shells directly onto the substrate. Pedunculate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
