goose barnacle

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stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers

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Sex determination in Scalpellum scalpellum (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Lepadomorpha), a hermaphroditic goose barnacle with dwarf males.
Plastic sexual expression in the androdioecious barnacle Octolasmis warwickii (Cirripedia: pedunculata)
Growth of Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1790) (Cirripedia, Lepadomorpha) on the SW coast of Portugal.
A new approach to estimation of the length-weight relationship of Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1789) on the Atlantic Coast of Galicia (Northwest Spain): some aspects of its biology and management
In the superorder Thoracica, dwarf males have so far been reported in the suborders Balanomorpha, Iblomorpha, Scalpellomorpha, and Heteralepadomorpha, but not in Lepadomorpha or Verrucomorpha (Klepal, 1985, 1987; Hoeg, 1995).
Dwarf males of Octolasmis warwickii (Cirripedia: Thoracica): the first example of coexistence of males and hermaphrodites in the suborder Lepadomorpha
This epibiota consist mostly of algae together with acorn (balanomorpha) and goose (lepadomorpha) barnacles, polychaetes, amphipods, bivalves, limpets, and briozoans that moisten and shade the snails and incidentally give them protection against the sun and the predators.
Variations in density, shell-size and growth with shore height and wave exposure of the rocky intertidal snail, Calyptraea spirata (Forbes, 1852), in the tropical Mexican Pacific
Lepas anserifera Linne (Cirripedia: Lepadomorpha) feeding on fish and Physalia.
Cropping of Sea Anemone Tentacles by a Symbiotic Barnacle
The goose barnacles of the genus Octolasmis that are under study here are members of the Lepadomorpha (Zevina, 1982), and they differ from other barnacles in several important ways.
Patterns of distribution of two barnacle species on the mangrove crab, Scylla serrata
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