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- proper noun A taxonomic
infraclass within thesubclass Thecostraca — thebarnacles .
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The name Cirripedia is actually derived from Latin and translates to the term "Joint Footed".
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The name Cirripedia is actually derived from Latin and translates to the term "Joint Footed".
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The name Cirripedia is actually derived from Latin and translates to the term "Joint Footed".
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The name Cirripedia is actually derived from Latin and translates to the term "Joint Footed".
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Meanwhile Darwin had been carrying on a great research on the very peculiar order of crustacea, termed Cirripedia, better known as barnacles and acorn shells.
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Very early on this trip Darwin began to work on the "Cirripedia"
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Elbert Hubbard 1885
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However, when Charles planned this research, he greatly underestimated the time it would take him the Cirripedia volumes, where he dissected and described all known and extinct barnacles, took him much longer than he anticipated, and so it blew out from 8 to 20 years.
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Which creature is being described here: "Any of various marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia that, as adults, live attached to rocks, ship bottoms, etc."?
October 2007 2007
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Cypris ultrastructure, metamorphosis and sex in seven families of parasitic barnacles Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The morphology of the naupilar stages of Sacculina carcini Crustacea: Cirripedia: Rhizocephala.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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