Pollicipes pollicipes

Pollicipes pollicipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Pollicipedomorpha
Family: Pollicipedidae
Genus: Pollicipes
Species:
P. pollicipes
Binomial name
Pollicipes pollicipes
Range of P. pollicipes shown in red
Synonyms
  • Lepas gallorum Spengler, 1790 [2]
  • Lepas pollicipes Gmelin, 1789 [2]
  • Mitella pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789) [3]
  • Pollicipes cornucopia Leach, 1817 [1][3]

Pollicipes pollicipes, known as the goose neck barnacle, goose barnacle or leaf barnacle is a species of goose barnacle, also well known under the taxonomic synonym Pollicipes cornucopia. It is closely related to Pollicipes polymerus, a species with the same common names, but found on the Pacific coast of North America,[4] and to Pollicipes elegans a species from the coast of Chile.[2] It is found on rocky shores in the north-east Atlantic Ocean and is prized as a delicacy, especially in the Iberian Peninsula.[5]

  1. ^ a b Alan Southward (December 21, 2004). "Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789)". European Register of Marine Species. MarBEF Data System.
  2. ^ a b c Charles Darwin (1851). A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. Ray Society.
  3. ^ a b M. K. S. Barnes (February 10, 2009). "A stalked barnacle – Pollicipes pollicipes". Marine Life Information Network for Britain & Ireland. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Archived from the original on December 23, 2012.
  4. ^ Melissa McFadden, Hans Helmtetler & Dave Cowles (2007). "Mitella polymerus (Sowerby, 1833)". Walla Walla University. Archived from the original on 2012-02-13.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Molares was invoked but never defined (see the help page).