Definition of Subclass cirripedia

1. Noun. Barnacles.

Exact synonyms: Cirripedia
Group relationships: Class Crustacea, Crustacea
Member holonyms: Barnacle, Cirriped, Cirripede, Balanidae, Family Balanidae, Family Lepadidae, Lepadidae
Generic synonyms: Class

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subclass Cirripedia

subclaims
subclan
subclans

Literary usage of Subclass cirripedia

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

1. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1853)
"... work of Dr. Fresenius that it can well afford to have a few errors pointed out. A Monograph of the subclass cirripedia, with figures of all the species. ..."

2. North American Index Fossils by Amadeus William Grabau, Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1910)
"subclass cirripedia Latreille. (Barnacles.) The Cirripedes or barnacles differ greatly from other Crustacea, of which they represent a degenerate type. ..."

3. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"... only to the general works and to the most recent papers, bringing the subject up to date. 1851. DARWIN, CHARLES. A monograph on tne subclass Cirripedia. ..."

4. North American Geology and Palæontology for the Use of Amateurs, Students by Samuel Almond Miller (1889)
"The subclass cirripedia includes only a single order which bears the same name. The animals, when mature, are attached to submarine objects, ..."

5. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... segment consisting of last thoracic and first abdominal. (From Shipley and MacBride. partly after Hartog.) FIG. 314. — Subclass CIRRIPEDIA. ..."

6. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"A species of barnacle (subclass Cirripedia of the Crustacea). The goose barnacle. Leptinotarsa (lep' tin o tar' sa). A genus of leaf-eating beetles to which ..."

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