Pollicipes

Pollicipes
Pollicipes pollicipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Maxillopoda
Infraclass: Cirripedia
Order: Pedunculata
Family: Pollicipedidae
Genus: Pollicipes
Leach, 1817 [1]
Species [2][3]
  • Pollicipes mitella Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pollicipes pollicipes Gmelin, 1789
  • Pollicipes elegans Lesson, 1831
  • Pollicipes polymerus Sowerby, 1833

Pollicipes is a genus of goose barnacles, first described by William Elford Leach in 1817. It comprises four species of marine suspension-feeders.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Pollicipes Leach, 1817". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=89475. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 
  2. ^ Benny K. K. Chan. "Pollicipes Leach, 1817". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106101. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Pollicipes". Encyclopedia of Life. http://eol.org/pages/43173/entries/36210721/overview. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 
  4. ^ Benny K. K. Chan. "Pollicipes Leach, 1817". MarBEF Data System. http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106101. Retrieved November 11, 2011. 

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