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lepadidae
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lepadidae
Lepadidae \Lepadidae\ prop. n. A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles.
Syn: family Lepadidae.
Wikipedia
Lepadidae
Lepadidae is a family of goose barnacles, erected by Charles Darwin in 1852. It contains the three genera Lepas, Conchoderma and Dosima.
Usage examples of "lepadidae".
But, as Fritz Müller remarks, we have in Anelasma an animal in an almost exactly intermediate condition, for it has rootlike processes embedded in the skin of the shark on which it is parasitic, and its prehensile cirri and mouth (as described in my monograph on the Lepadidae, 'Ray Soc.
Kossmann has given a very interesting discussion on this subject in his 'Suctoria and Lepadidae,' 1873.