Thecostraca | 
Scalpellomorpha | 
Lepadidae
			
			
			
				Environment: milieu / climate zone / djupintervall / distribution range				
				
					Ekologi				
				
			
			
				Pelagiska;  djupintervall 0 - 75 m (Ref. 105990).  Tropical; 81°N -   57°S, 179°W -   180°E			
			
			
				
			
			
			
				Circumglobal (76°N to 57°S):  Indian Ocean, Europe, California to Panama, Japan, Philippines, Australia , North America, northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil and Argentina.
			
			
			
			
			
				Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
			
			
				Könsmognad: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm			
			
			
						
			
			
			
			
				
					Pelagic (Ref. 99821).  Found on buoys and floating objects (Refs. 2767, 7484, 85157) and grows on cork lifebelt (Ref. 3534).  Also on keel of ships and driftwood.  Known as a fouling species (Ref. 81749).  Nonselective filter feeder; opportunistically ingests an array of zooplankton and fills its gut with sand when stranded on the beach.  Readily ingest large prey up to 5 mm in diameter (Ref. 106994).				
			
			
			
			
			
				Life cycle and mating behavior				
					Könsmognad | Reproduktion | Lek | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
			
			
				
					Members of the superorder Thoracica are mostly hermaphroditic.  Broadcast spawners, fertilization occurs in the mantle cavity.  Life cycle:  Eggs hatch into planktonic nauplii and leave the mantle cavity.  Afterwards, they undergo six naupliar instars succeded by nonfeeding cypris larva (settling stage) which later metamorphose into adults.				
			
			
			
			
			
				Young, P.S. 1998 Maxillopoda. Thecostraca. p. 263-285. In Young, P.S. (ed.). Catalogue of Crustacea of Brazil. Museo Nacional. Rio de Janeiro. (Ref. 3549)
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
					
						IUCN Red List Status    
						 (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
					
				
			
			
			
			
				CITES status   (Ref. 108899)
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
					Not Evaluated				
			
			
			
			
			
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				Human uses  
			
			
				Fiskeri: kommersiell			
			
			
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					Ytterligare information				
				
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  PhysiologySyreförbrukning
  Human RelatedStamps, coins, misc.
  
			 
			
			
			
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						Preferred temperature  					
				 (Ref. 
115969): 8.8 - 28.9, mean 25 (based on 3094 cells).			
 
			
			
			
			
			
						
						
						
			
									
						Price category  					
					
					Unknown.