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Lepas Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 106087

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Thecostraca (Subclass) > Cirripedia (Infraclass) > Thoracica (Superorder) > Lepadiformes (Order) > Lepadomorpha (Suborder) > Lepadidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Lepadidae
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

basis of record: 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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record: Ren, X. (1989). On a collection of Cirripedia thoracia from Madagascar and adjacent waters. Bull. Mus. Natn. Hist. Nat., Paris 4ieme ser. 11(2): 431-468. [details]

additional source: 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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English goose barnacles  [details]
Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Lepas anatifera Linnaeus, 1758
Species Lepas anserifera Linnaeus, 1767
Species Lepas australis Darwin, 1851
Species Lepas hilli Leach, 1818
Species Lepas indica Annandale, 1909
Species Lepas pectinata Spengler, 1793
Species Lepas testudinata Aurivillius, 1894

Species Lepas balanoides Linnaeus, 1767 accepted as Semibalanus balanoides (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Lepas fascicularis Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Dosima fascicularis (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Species Lepas scalpellum Linnaeus, 1767 accepted as Scalpellum scalpellum (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Lepas stroemia O.F. Müller, 1776 accepted as Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776)
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Images 
Lepas
Lepas
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
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Lepas
Lepas
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
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Lepas
Lepas
added on 2011-02-01 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Moira Galbraith ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106087
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Southward, Alan
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Lepas. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106087 on 2013-05-20
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