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Pollicipes Leach, 1817 
AphiaID: 106101

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Maxillopoda (Class) > Thecostraca (Subclass) > Cirripedia (Infraclass) > Thoracica (Superorder) > Scalpelliformes (Order) > Pollicipedidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Pollicipedidae Leach, 1817
Synonymised
taxa
  Mitella Oken, 1815 (nom. rej. ICZN Opinion 417)
Sources  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]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [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]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Pollicipes caboverdensis Fernandes, Cruz & Van Syoc, 2010
Species Pollicipes elegans (Lesson, 1831)
Species Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1790)
Species Pollicipes polymerus (Sowerby, 1883)

Species Pollicipes cornucopia accepted as Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1790)
Species Pollicipes mitella (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Capitulum mitella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106101
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Southward, Alan
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-10-22 06:14:53Z  checked  Chan, Benny K.K.
  
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  Citation: Chan, Benny K.K. (2013). Pollicipes Leach, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106101 on 2013-05-19
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