Paralepas globosa
Amazing fact
Paralepas globosa has been observed moving its muscular stalk to swing its head-like part up and down.
鳥羽水族館
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A little discovery to share.
A deep-sea relative of goose barnacles, it is a crustacean closely related to acorn barnacles.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Paralepas globosa
- Scientific name
- Paralepas globosa
- Japanese name
- ダルマハダカエボシ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Thecostraca
- Order
- Scalpellomorpha
- Family
- Heteralepadidae
- Genus
- Paralepas
A deep-sea relative of goose barnacles, it is a crustacean closely related to acorn barnacles.
How the Paralepas globosa lives
It can be found attached to the tip of a shell carried by a hermit crab. It has been observed pivoting around its attachment point to gather the surrounding sand.
鳥羽水族館鳥羽水族館Basic data
- Diet
- Plankton
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ダルマハダカエボシ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ダルマハダカエボシChecked: 2026-11-04
- 鳥羽水族館 — ダルマハダカエボシの餌の捕り方Checked: 2026-11-09
- 鳥羽水族館 — ダルマハダカエボシの矮雄Checked: 2026-11-09
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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