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Tetraclita rubescens

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(Redirected from Volcano barnacles) Species of crustacean

Pink volcano barnacle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Thecostraca
Subclass: Cirripedia
Order: Balanomorpha
Family: Tetraclitidae
Genus: Tetraclita
Species: T. rubescens
Binomial name
Tetraclita rubescens
Darwin, 1854

Tetraclita rubescens, commonly known as the pink volcano barnacle, is a species of sessile barnacle in the family Tetraclitidae.

Pink volcano barnacles are a largeish species, with a ruddy colouration and shell comprising four plates. Their diameter, at the base, measures from 20–50 millimetres (0.8–2.0 in). The barnacles produce several hundred nauplii per brood, which they have two or three of each mating season, when they reproduce by copulation. The nauplii then live pelagically for a few weeks. Reaching sexual maturity after two years, the barnacles can live up to fifteen years. The barnacles are found on the southwestern Pacific coast of North America.

References

  1. "Tetraclita rubescens Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  2. "Tetraclita rubescens". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  3. Tetraclita rubescens (Darwin 1854) UC Santa Cruz MARINe database, accessed 5/14/2020
  4. Dawson, Michael N.; Grosberg, Richard K.; Stuart, Yoel E.; Sanford, Eric (Apr 2010). "Population genetic analysis of a recent range expansion: mechanisms regulating the poleward range limit in the volcano barnacle Tetraclita rubescens". Molecular Ecology. 19 (8): 1585–1605. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04588.x.


Taxon identifiers
Tetraclita rubescens


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