Dosima fascicularis
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Dosima fascicularis, the buoy barnacle, is "the most specialised pleustonic goose barnacle" species.[3] It hangs downwards from the water surface, held up by a float of its own construction, and is carried along by ocean currents.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Thecostraca |
Subclass: | Cirripedia |
Order: | Scalpellomorpha |
Family: | Lepadidae |
Genus: | Dosima |
Species: | D. fascicularis |
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Dosima fascicularis | |
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