Cirripedia (subclass)
Esquema
Jerarquía
Eukaryota (domain) > Animalia (kingdom) > Arthropoda (phylum) > Crustacea (subphylum) > Maxillopoda (class)
Descripción
Members of a subclass containing around 1,220 species of arthropod that go through several distinct swimming stages as plankton, then usually fix themselves to a rocky or other hard submerged surface as adults, having a hard shell and feeding by reaching into the water with modified legs. Classified as an infraclass in some systems.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- 蔓足亞綱 (亞綱) [zh]
- màn zú yǎ gāng [zh]
- man zu ya gang [zh]
- man tsu ya kang [zh]
- barnacles [en]
- barnacle [en]
- cirripedes [en]
- cirripeds [en]
- Cirripeda [en]
- Cirripeda [la]
- 蔓足類 [zh]