Pollicipes

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Pollicipes
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Pollicipes pollicipes
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Pollicipedomorpha
Family: Pollicipedidae
Genus: Pollicipes
Leach, 1817

Pollicipes is a genus of goose barnacles, first described by William Elford Leach in 1817. It comprises four species of marine suspension-feeders.[1][2]

Species[]

These species belong to the genus Pollicipes:[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "World Register of Marine Species, genus Pollicipes". Retrieved 2021-08-23.
  2. ^ Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; et al. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160.

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