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Definition of Lepas fascicularis
1. Noun. Stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers.
Generic synonyms: Barnacle, Cirriped, Cirripede
Group relationships: Genus Lepas, Lepas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepas Fascicularis
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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