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Goose barnacles served in a Spanish restaurant in Madrid. In Portugal and Spain , P. pollicipes is a widely consumed and expensive delicacy known as percebes , which are harvested commercially in the Iberian northern coast, mainly in Galicia and Asturias , but also in the southwestern Portuguese coast ( Alentejo ) and are also imported from ...
Pollicipes pollicipes, known as the goose neck barnacle, goose barnacle or leaf barnacle is a species of goose barnacle, also well known under the taxonomic synonym Pollicipes cornucopia. It is closely related to Pollicipes polymerus , a species with the same common names , but found on the Pacific coast of North America , [ 4 ] and to ...
Pollicipes polymerus, commonly known as the gooseneck barnacle or leaf barnacle, is a species of stalked barnacle. It is found, often in great numbers, on rocky shores on the Pacific coasts of North America .
Lepas anatifera, commonly known as the pelagic gooseneck barnacle or smooth gooseneck barnacle, is a species of barnacle in the family Lepadidae. These barnacles are found, often in large numbers, attached by their flexible stalks to floating timber, the hulls of ships, piers, pilings, seaweed , and various sorts of flotsam .
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Pollicipes is a genus of goose barnacles, first described by William Elford Leach in 1817. It comprises four species of marine suspension-feeders. [1] [2] Species.
The goose barnacle Pollicipes polymerus can alternatively reproduce by spermcasting, in which the male barnacle releases his sperm into the water, to be taken up by females. Isolated individuals always made use of spermcasting and sperm capture, as did a quarter of individuals with a close neighbour.
Pollicipes elegans, the Pacific goose barnacle, is a species of gooseneck barnacle inhabiting the tropical coastline of the eastern Pacific Ocean. [2] Its habitat borders a close relative, Pollicipes polymerus , a gooseneck barnacle covering the coastline of the Pacific Northwest .