World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Lepadidae Darwin, 1852

AphiaID

106048 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106048)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Lepadoidea Chan, Dreyer, Gale, Glenner, Ewers-Saucedo, Pérez-Losada, Kolbasov, Crandall & Høeg, 2021

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Genus Conchoderma von Olfers, 1814
Genus Dosima Gray, 1825
Genus Hyalolepas Annandale, 1906
Genus Lepas Linnaeus, 1758
Genus Otion Leach, 1817 accepted as Conchoderma von Olfers, 1814 (Synonym in Darwin 1852, page 137)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Lepadidae Darwin, 1852. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106048 on 2025-07-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Southward, Alan

2013-07-03 10:38:20Z

changed

Boxshall, Geoff

2021-04-27 15:24:55Z

changed

Crandall, Keith A.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

basis of record Southward, A.J. (2001). Cirripedia - non-parasitic Thoracica, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 280-283 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Chan, B. K. K.; Dreyer, N.; Gale, A. S.; Glenner, H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C.; Pérez-Losada, M.; Kolbasov, G. A.; Crandall, K. A.; Høeg, J. T. (2021). The evolutionary diversity of barnacles, with an updated classification of fossil and living forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa160 [details]

Other

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	eendemossels	[details]
English	goose barnacles	[details]
German	Entenmuscheln	[details]
Japanese	エボシガイ科	[details]

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