Lepas anatifera

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Lepas anatifera

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…for he named the genus Lepas (“Shellfish”) and the local species L. anatifera and L. anserifera (“duck-bearing” and “goose-bearing,” respectively), and these pedunculate barnacles continue to be called goose barnacles.
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