''Lepas'' 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 ...
.
Species
Species in the genus include:
* ''
Lepas anatifera''
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758
* ''
Lepas anserifera
''Lepas anserifera'' is a species of goose barnacle or stalked barnacle in the family Lepadidae. It lives attached to floating timber, ships' hulls and various sorts of flotsam.
Description
''Lepas anserifera'' has a shell or capitulum enclosed ...
''
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1767
* ''
Lepas australis''
Darwin, 1851
* ''
Lepas hilli
''Lepas'' is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.
Species
Species in the genus include:
* '' Lepas anatifera'' Linnaeus, 1758
* ''Lepas anserifera'' Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known a ...
''
Leach, 1818
* ''
Lepas indica''
Annandale, 1909
* ''
Lepas pectinata''
Spengler, 1793
* ''
Lepas testudinata''
Aurivillius, 1894
References
Barnacles
Maxillopoda genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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