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Platylepas Mediterranea
''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *''Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & Limpus, 1979 *''Platylepas decorata'' Darwin, 1854 *''Platylepas hexastylos'' (Fabricius, 1798) *''Platylepas indicus'' Daniel, 1958 *''Platylepas krugeri'' (Krüger, 1912) *''Platylepas multidecorata'' Daniel, 1962 *''Platylepas ophiophila ''Platylepas ophiophila'', commonly known as the sea snake barnacle, is a species of barnacle in the family Platylepadidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean where it lives as a symbiont of a sea snake. Ecology ''Platylepas ophiophila'' i ...'' Lanchester, 1902 *'' Platylepas wilsoni'' Ross, 1963 * † '' Platylepas mediterranea'' Collareta et al., 2019 References Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnacle
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. Peduncul ... [...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] |
Platylepadidae
In the past, Platylepadidae has been considered a family of barnacle 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 eros ...s of the order Sessilia. Research published in 2021 by Chan et al. resulted in the genera of Platylepadidae being merged with that of Balanidae, except Stephanolepas which was moved to Chelonibiidae. In the same work, Sessilia was not retained as an order of barnacles. References Obsolete arthropod taxa {{Crustacean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crustacea
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. Some crustaceans (Remipedia, Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda) are more closely related to insects and the other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. The 67,000 described species range in size from '' Stygotantulus stocki'' at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to and a mass of . Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Register Of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialists on each group of organism. These taxonomists control the quality of the information, which is gathered from the primary scientific literature as well as from some external regional and taxon-specific databases. WoRMS maintains valid names of all marine organisms, but also provides information on synonyms and invalid names. It is an ongoing task to maintain the registry, since new species are constantly being discovered and described by scientists; in addition, the nomenclature and taxonomy of existing species is often corrected or changed as new research is constantly being published. Subsets of WoRMS content are made available, and can have separate badging and their own home/launch pages, as "subregisters", such as the ''World List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Coriacea
''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *'' Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & Limpus, 1979 *''Platylepas decorata ''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS ...'' Darwin, 1854 *'' Platylepas hexastylos'' (Fabricius, 1798) *'' Platylepas indicus'' Daniel, 1958 *'' Platylepas krugeri'' (Krüger, 1912) *'' Platylepas multidecorata'' Daniel, 1962 *'' Platylepas ophiophila'' Lanchester, 1902 *'' Platylepas wilsoni'' Ross, 1963 * † '' Platylepas mediterranea'' Collareta et al., 2019 References Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Decorata
''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific specialis ... include: *'' Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & Limpus, 1979 *'' Platylepas decorata'' Darwin, 1854 *'' Platylepas hexastylos'' (Fabricius, 1798) *'' Platylepas indicus'' Daniel, 1958 *'' Platylepas krugeri'' (Krüger, 1912) *'' Platylepas multidecorata'' Daniel, 1962 *'' Platylepas ophiophila'' Lanchester, 1902 *'' Platylepas wilsoni'' Ross, 1963 * † '' Platylepas mediterranea'' Collareta et al., 2019 References Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Hexastylos
''Platylepas hexastylos'' is a species of barnacle in the family Platylepadidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean where it lives as a symbiont of such large marine creatures as the dugong (''Dugong dugon''), the green sea turtle (''Chelonia mydas''), the olive ridley sea turtle (''Lepidochelys olivacea''), or the loggerhead sea turtle (''Caretta caretta''). Ecology Some species of barnacle settle on either a solid substrate or on a living host, but others are obligate commensal Commensalism is a long-term biological interaction (symbiosis) in which members of one species gain benefits while those of the other species neither benefit nor are harmed. This is in contrast with mutualism, in which both organisms benefit fro ...s, and this latter group includes ''P. hexastylos''. In a study of stranded turtles on the coast of southern Brazil, ''P. hexastylos'' and '' Chelonibia testudinaria'' were the barnacles most often encountered. Some turtles had as many as three spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Indicus
''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *''Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & Limpus, 1979 *''Platylepas decorata'' Darwin, 1854 *''Platylepas hexastylos ''Platylepas hexastylos'' is a species of barnacle in the family Platylepadidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean where it lives as a symbiont of such large marine creatures as the dugong (''Dugong dugon''), the green sea turtle (''Chelo ...'' (Fabricius, 1798) *'' Platylepas indicus'' Daniel, 1958 *'' Platylepas krugeri'' (Krüger, 1912) *'' Platylepas multidecorata'' Daniel, 1962 *'' Platylepas ophiophila'' Lanchester, 1902 *'' Platylepas wilsoni'' Ross, 1963 * † '' Platylepas mediterranea'' Collareta et al., 2019 References Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Krugeri
''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *''Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & Limpus, 1979 *''Platylepas decorata'' Darwin, 1854 *''Platylepas hexastylos'' (Fabricius, 1798) *''Platylepas indicus ''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *''Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & L ...'' Daniel, 1958 *'' Platylepas krugeri'' (Krüger, 1912) *'' Platylepas multidecorata'' Daniel, 1962 *'' Platylepas ophiophila'' Lanchester, 1902 *'' Platylepas wilsoni'' Ross, 1963 * † '' Platylepas mediterranea'' Collareta et al., 2019 References Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Multidecorata
''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *''Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & Limpus, 1979 *''Platylepas decorata'' Darwin, 1854 *''Platylepas hexastylos'' (Fabricius, 1798) *''Platylepas indicus'' Daniel, 1958 *''Platylepas krugeri ''Platylepas'' is a genus of barnacles in the family Platylepadidae of the subphylum Crustacea. Species Species within the genus ''Platylepas'' recognised by the World Register of Marine Species include: *''Platylepas coriacea'' Monroe & L ...'' (Krüger, 1912) *'' Platylepas multidecorata'' Daniel, 1962 *'' Platylepas ophiophila'' Lanchester, 1902 *'' Platylepas wilsoni'' Ross, 1963 * † '' Platylepas mediterranea'' Collareta et al., 2019 References Barnacles {{Maxillopoda-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platylepas Ophiophila
''Platylepas ophiophila'', commonly known as the sea snake barnacle, is a species of barnacle in the family Platylepadidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific Ocean where it lives as a symbiont of a sea snake. Ecology ''Platylepas ophiophila'' is found living in association with several species of sea snake as an ectosymbiont. The barnacle adheres to the snake's skin, and has ribs that penetrate the snake's skin to make the attachment more secure. Nevertheless, the barnacle usually becomes detached when the snake sheds its skin. Barnacles breed by internal fertilisation, so individuals of this species have to be located adjacent to another individual in order to reproduce. Despite the fact that sea snakes are mobile and generally solitary, about half the sea snakes support barnacles. The barnacle may have adopted this lifestyle as a result of intense competition for space on coral reefs, rocks and other hard substrates; the advantages for the barnacle are freedom from predators, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
