Conchoderma
Genus of barnacles
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Conchoderma is a genus of goose barnacles in the family Lepadidae.
| Conchoderma | |
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| Illustration of Conchoderma auritum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Thecostraca |
| Subclass: | Cirripedia |
| Order: | Scalpellomorpha |
| Family: | Lepadidae |
| Genus: | Conchoderma von Olfers, 1817[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lepas aurita | |
| Species[2] | |
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| Synonyms | |
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cochlea | |
Notes
- 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.
