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 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. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  2. Benny K. K. Chan (2011). "Pollicipes Leach, 1817". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  3. "Pollicipes". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved November 11, 2011.
  4. Benny K. K. Chan (2011). "Pollicipes Leach, 1817". MarBEF Data System. Retrieved November 11, 2011.

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