| Family: |
Lepadidae (goose barnacles) |
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| Environment: |
pelagic; marine; depth range 0 - 75 m |
| Distribution: |
Circumglobal (76°N to 57°S): Indian Ocean, Europe, California to Panama, Japan, Philippines, Australia , North America, northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil and Argentina. |
| Diagnosis: |
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| Biology: |
Pelagic (Ref. 99821). Found on buoys and floating objects (Refs. 2767, 7484, 85157) and grows on cork lifebelt (Ref. 3534). Also on keel of ships and driftwood. Known as a fouling species (Ref. 81749). Nonselective filter feeder; opportunistically ingests an array of zooplankton and fills its gut with sand when stranded on the beach. Readily ingest large prey up to 5 mm in diameter (Ref. 106994). |
| IUCN Red List Status: |
Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. 123251)
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| Threat to humans: |
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