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. 2008 Feb 5;275(1638):1081–1087. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1760

Table 1.

Extended penis length in animals.

common name scientific name penis length relative to body length references
burrowing barnacle Cryptophialus minutus 8.0 Darwin (1854)
Japanese acorn barnacle Tetraclita japonica 3.9 Murata et al. (2001)
Pacific acorn barnacle Balanus glandula 3.6 C. J. Neufeld (unpublished data)
rove beetle Aleochara tristis 2.0 Gack & Peschke (2005)
Argentine lake duck Oxyura vittata 1.0 McCracken et al. (2001)
hat snail Calyptraea morbida 1.0 Chen & Soong (2000)
seed bug Lygaeus simulans 1.0 Tadler (1999)
feather mite Proterothrix sp. 1.0 H. Proctor (2007, personal communication)
sand flea Tunga penetrans 1.0 H. Proctor (2007, personal communication)
slipper limpet Crepidula spp. 0.6 Brown & Olivares (1996)
spider Tidarren spp. 0.5 Ramos et al. (2004)
ostracod Candona suburbana 0.3 Cohen & Morin (1990)