Pollicipes

Genus of barnacles

Pollicipes

Pollicipes pollicipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Thecostraca
Subclass:  | Cirripedia
Order:  | Pollicipedomorpha
Family:  | Pollicipedidae
Genus:  | Pollicipes
Leach, 1817

Pollicipes is a genus of goose barnacles, first described by William Elford Leach in 1817. It comprises four species of marine suspension-feeders.[1][2]

## Species

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These species belong to the genus Pollicipes:[1]

* Pollicipes caboverdensis Fernandes, Cruz & Van Syoc, 2010
* Pollicipes elegans (Lesson, 1831) (Pacific goose barnacle)
* Pollicipes pollicipes (Gmelin, 1791 [in Gmelin, 1788-1792]) (goose barnacle)
* Pollicipes polymerus Sowerby, 1833 (gooseneck barnacle)

## References

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1. ^ a b "World Register of Marine Species, genus Pollicipes". Retrieved 2021-08-23.
2. ^ Chan, Benny K. K.; Dreyer, Niklas; Gale, Andy S.; Glenner, Henrik; et al. (2021). "The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 789–846\. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160. hdl:11250/2990967.

## External links

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* Data related to Pollicipes at Wikispecies
* Pollicipes polymerus

Taxon identifiers

Pollicipes|

* Wikidata: Q3395334
* Wikispecies: Pollicipes
* BOLD: 5821
* CoL: 63NP9
* EoL: 43173
* EPPO: 1PLLKG
* GBIF: 2113806
* iNaturalist: 48788
* IRMNG: 1198972
* ITIS: 89475
* NBN: NHMSYS0021052672
* NCBI: 36136
* Open Tree of Life: 473037
* Paleobiology Database: 22181
* WoRMS: 106101

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