''Conchoderma auritum'', the rabbit-ear barnacle, is a species of
maxillopod
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 c ...
in the family
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 (wh ...
.
It is found in
Europe
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,
Africa
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, and
New Zealand
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Maxillopoda
Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean
Crustaceans of the Indian Ocean
Crustaceans of the Pacific Ocean
Crustaceans described in 1767
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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