Pollicipes mitella
These barnacles were collected by Hugh Cuming who is mostly known for collecting shells. He gave Darwin his barnacle collection to study. /nBarnacles such as Pollicipes were fascinating to Darwin, especially their reproductive biology. As a self-taught zoologist, he spent eight years of his life dedicated to working on the taxonomy of barnacles.
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Keywords: acorn, animal, arthropod, arthropoda, barnacle, charles, cirripedia, coronulidae, crustacea, crustacean, darwin, invertebrata, invertebrate, maxillopod, maxillopoda, mitella, pollicipes, scale, sessilia, whale, yellow
