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Conchoderma

Conchoderma is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.

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Conchoderma
Illustration of "Conchoderma auritum"
Illustration of Conchoderma auritum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Scalpellomorpha
Family: Lepadidae
Genus: Conchoderma
von Olfers, 18171
Type species
Lepas aurita
Species5
Synonyms

cochlea

Conchoderma is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.

Notes

Notes

  1. The authority for Conchoderma auritum is correctly "(Linnaeus, 1767)",234 but is often given as "(Linnaeus, 1758)"; the species dates from the 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae (as "Lepas aurita"), and does not appear in the 1758 10th edition.
References

References

  1. Von Olfers, F. (1814). Ueber die Linneischen Gattungen Chiton und Lepas. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der gesammten Naturkunde. 8(3): 163-178. page(s): 177
  2. Ljubimka Igić (2007). "Cirripedia of Adriatic" (PDF). Studia Marina. 24 (2): 1–168.
  3. "Lepas aurita". Catalogue of Life, China: 2010 Annual Checklist. Retrieved October 24, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. L. S. Jennings (1918). "Revision of the Cirripedia of New Zealand" (PDF). Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 50: 56–63.
  5. WoRMS (2019). Conchoderma von Olfers, 1814. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106085 on 2019-06-03
Further reading

Further reading

  • Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283
  • Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939). Nomenclator Zoologicus Online. [print version]., available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ Archived 2021-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
  • Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.