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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 05:05, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Pollicipes polymerus

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Pollicipes polymerus

  • Reviewed: Christmas Gift Evans House
  • Comment: Hook reference is three quarters of the way through the paper under the subheading "Self fertilization".

Created/expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nom at 11:37, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

  • Hook fact good. Article length, references, and age good. No policy issues found. Image status good. --Kevmin § 02:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Although the term "gooseneck barnacle" can be used for this species, it is more generally used to refer to the whole order. I would suggest re-wording it to clrify that we're talking about a particular species: --Stemonitis (talk) 20:00, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

ALT1: ... that the gooseneck barnacle Pollicipes polymerus (several pictured) will be sterile if there are no others within 20 cm (8 in)?