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Pollicipes
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Pollicipes

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

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Gooseneck Barnacle

speciesPollicipes polymerus

Goose barnacle

speciesPollicipes pollicipes

Pollicipes elegans

speciesPollicipes elegans

Cape Verde Goose Barnacle

speciesPollicipes caboverdensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48788.