Definition of Lepas fascicularis

1. Noun. Stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers.

Exact synonyms: Goose Barnacle, Gooseneck Barnacle
Generic synonyms: Barnacle, Cirriped, Cirripede
Group relationships: Genus Lepas, Lepas

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepas Fascicularis

Leontopodium alpinum
Leontyne Price
Leonurus
Leonurus cardiaca
Leopold
Leopold's manoeuvres
Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
Leopold Kronecker
Leopold Stokowski
Leopoldville
Leora
Leos
Leotia lubrica
Lepadidae
Lepanto
Lepas fascicularis
Lepcha
Lepechinia
Lepechinia calycina
Lepehne
Lepehne-Pickworth stain
Lepidium
Lepidium alpina
Lepidium sativum
Lepidobotryaceae
Lepidochelys
Lepidochelys kempii
Lepidochelys olivacea
Lepidocybium
Lepidocybium flavobrunneum

Literary usage of Lepas fascicularis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"That the cement-tissue can grow outwards and assume definite forms, we know from the singular case of lepas fascicularis, in which the cement proceeding ..."

2. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"Both mouth and anus are present, and the hind end of the body is slightly forked in some forms, but ends in others, tg lepas fascicularis, in an elongated ..."

3. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"The Nauplius of lepas fascicularis has, when leaving the egg, a length of 0-35 millim. It moults at least five times, and has before throwing off for the ..."

4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"... where it is associated with lepas fascicularis, a small swimming-crab, ... not feed on these jelly fishes, nor do the individuals of lepas fascicularis. ..."

5. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands by William Turton (1819)
"lepas fascicularis. Bladder Barnacle. .Lepas dilatata. Donovan, pi. 164. Lister, pi. 439. f. 280. Wood, pi. ] 0. f. 4. ..."

6. A Laboratory Course in Invertebrate Zoöloy by Hermon Carey Bumpus (1893)
"... CRUSTACEAN (lepas fascicularis). External Anatomy. — The highly specialized animal is attached at its anterior end by an elongated peduncle, ..."

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