Conchoderma

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Conchoderma is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.

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Conchoderma
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Illustration of Conchoderma auritum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Scalpellomorpha
Family: Lepadidae
Genus: Conchoderma
von Olfers, 1817[1]
Type species
Lepas aurita
Species[2]
Synonyms

cochlea

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Notes

  1. The authority for Conchoderma auritum is correctly "(Linnaeus, 1767)",[3][4][5] but is often given as "(Linnaeus, 1758)"; the species dates from the 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae (as "Lepas aurita"), and does not appear in the 1758 10th edition.

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