''Conchoderma'' is a
genus
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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 in the
family
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Lepadidae
Lepadidae is a family of goose barnacles, erected by Charles Darwin in 1852. There are about five genera and more than 20 described species in Lepadidae.
Genera
These genera belong to the family Lepadidae:
* ''Conchoderma'' von Olfers, 1814 (wha ...
.
Notes
References
Further reading
*Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283
*Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939). Nomenclator Zoologicus Online.
rint version, available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/
*Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. . 627 pp.
Barnacles
Maxillopoda genera
Taxa named by Ignaz von Olfers
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