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Chthamalus stellatus

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54: 33: 331:, a stage at which they cannot feed. The cyprid swims in search of a suitable surface on which to attach itself, head first, in order to metamorphose into the familiar, hard-shelled, immobile form. The duration of its breeding season can be temperature dependent, and it produces fewer 274:
when it is a juvenile and an oval operculum opening when it is an adult. The shell is made up of six solid wall plates of approximately equal size. Its relatively narrow rostral plates remain separate from its rostrolateral plates and do not fuse.
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with black and orange markings which can be seen when its opercular aperture is not tightly closed. Depending upon environmental conditions and the amount of food available, it can reach up to 14 millimetres (0.55 in) in diameter.
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Barnacles of this species produce about 1,000 to 4,000 eggs per brood when functioning as female. The fertilised eggs remain inside the shell of the adult until they are released as
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are significantly longer than their bodies and are used by the stationary "functional males" to search the area for an equally stationary "functional female" neighbour to fertilise.
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with the specific prevalence of one species over another in a given locale possibly related to differences in the distribution of the species'
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and capable of self-fertilisation when isolated, but individuals typically take on either a male or female role in order to mate. Their
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base. It is basically cone-shaped but can assume a more tubular shape in a crowded colony. Like other sessile barnacles, as an adult
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that stays in its fixed shell and uses its feathery, rhythmically beating appendages – actually modified legs – to draw
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P. M. Ross; M. T. Burrows; S. J. Hawkins; A. J. Southward; K. P. Ryan (2003).
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Tikochinski, Yaron; Motro, Uzi; Simon-Blecher, Noa; Achituv, Yair (2021).
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
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Islands revealed that while they were morphologically similar to
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that attaches to rocks and other firm materials in the
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M. T. Burrows; S. J. Hawkins; A. J. Southward (1999).
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Irwin (2003). 1: 1124:Crustaceans described in 1791 445:Journal of Crustacean Biology 387:The vertical distribution of 591:(Poli's stellate barnacle)" 1145: 787:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa159 266:The chalky white shell of 205:common on rocky shores in 744:10.1017/S0025315498000101 516:10.1007/s00227-003-1057-0 164: 157: 49:Scientific classification 47: 39: 30: 23: 691:. UK Marine SACs project 195:Poli's stellate barnacle 358:and as far east as the 404:Semibalanus balanoides 292:Like most barnacles, 219:Giuseppe Saverio Poli 841:Chthamalus stellatus 811:Chthamalus stellatus 717:Chthamalus stellatus 628:Chthamalus stellatus 624:Karen Riley (2002). 589:Chthamalus stellatus 585:Karen Riley (2002). 547:Chthamalus stellatus 350:in the northeastern 217:. It is named after 187:Chthamalus stellatus 168:Chthamalus stellatus 25:Chthamalus stellatus 721:Chthamalus montagui 533:on August 24, 2007. 394:Chthamalus montagui 16:Species of barnacle 270:has a kite-shaped 207:South West England 1101: 1100: 993:Open Tree of Life 803:Taxon identifiers 669:on 19 August 2004 559:on 6 October 2007 339:Habitat and range 272:opercular opening 253:suspension feeder 183: 182: 150:C. stellatus 1136: 1094: 1093: 1081: 1080: 1079: 1053: 1052: 1040: 1039: 1027: 1026: 1014: 1013: 1001: 1000: 988: 987: 975: 974: 962: 961: 959:NBNSYS0000174548 949: 948: 936: 935: 923: 922: 910: 909: 897: 896: 884: 883: 871: 870: 858: 857: 845: 844: 843: 830: 829: 828: 798: 791: 790: 781:(3): 1072–1087. 762: 756: 755: 727: 710: 701: 700: 698: 696: 685: 679: 678: 676: 674: 665:. Archived from 655: 649: 648: 646: 645: 636:. Archived from 621: 610: 609: 607: 606: 597:. Archived from 582: 569: 568: 566: 564: 541: 535: 534: 532: 526:. 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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Thecostraca
Cirripedia
Balanomorpha
Chthamalidae
Chthamalus
Binomial name
Poli
common name
species
acorn barnacle
South West England
Ireland
Southern Europe
Giuseppe Saverio Poli
sessile
barnacle
intertidal zone
membranous
suspension feeder
plankton
detritus
opercular opening
tissue
hermaphroditic

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