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Barnacles are marine crustaceans of the class Maxillopoda. They are best known for attaching to other surfaces, including whales and ships.

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Barnacles are marine crustaceans of the class Maxillopoda. They are best known for attaching to other surfaces, including whales and ships.

The Symbiotic Relationship Between a Barnacle Living on a Whale's Skin

Barnacles are arthropods contained in the class Crustacea along with lobsters, crabs and shrimp. Learn about the relationship between barnacles and whales
http://animals.mom.me/symbiotic-relationship-between-barnacle-living-whales-skin-10968.html
Barnacles Could Help Find Missing Malaysia Airlines MH370: Here's How

Barnacles covering a piece of debris that washed up on a French island have the potential to aid in determining the location of the missing flight MH370, according to ecologists.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/73892/20150804/barnacles-could-help-find-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370-heres-how.htm
Goose Barnacle - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Goose barnacles (order Pedunculata), also called stalked barnacles or gooseneck barnacles, are filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_barnacle
Acorn barnacle videos, photos and facts - Semibalanus balanoides - ARKive

Learn more about the Acorn barnacle - with amazing Acorn barnacle videos, photos and facts on ARKive
http://www.arkive.org/acorn-barnacle/semibalanus-balanoides/
Barnacles Are Accidentally Eating Our Plastic Trash

Scientists discovered microplastic in one third of gooseneck barnacles hanging out in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
http://grist.org/news/barnacles-are-accidentally-eating-our-plastic-trash/
Absurd Creature of the Week: The Barnacle That Invades Crabs in a Not OK Way

This is one of the most disturbing and wildly complex parasitizations in the animal kingdom.
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-rhizocephalan
Barnacles - Chesapeake Bay Program

About barnicles; their appearance, habitat, range and feeding with embedded videos and as they relate to Chesapeake Bay
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fieldguide/critter/barnacles
Barnacle (Cirripedia) - Animals - A-Z Animals

General information and taxonomy of barnacles from A-Z Animals
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/barnacle/
Barnacle - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle

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Goose barnacle

Pollicipes pollicipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Thecostraca
Subclass:	Cirripedia
Infraclass:	Thoracica
Order:	Pedunculata Lamarck, 1818

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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The Symbiotic Relationship Between a Barnacle Living on a Whale's Skin

Barnacles are arthropods contained in the class Crustacea along with lobsters, crabs and shrimp. Learn about the relationship between barnacles and whales
http://animals.mom.me/symbiotic-relationship-between-barnacle-living-whales-skin-10968.html
Barnacles Could Help Find Missing Malaysia Airlines MH370: Here's How

Barnacles covering a piece of debris that washed up on a French island have the potential to aid in determining the location of the missing flight MH370, according to ecologists.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/73892/20150804/barnacles-could-help-find-missing-malaysia-airlines-mh370-heres-how.htm
Goose Barnacle - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Goose barnacles (order Pedunculata), also called stalked barnacles or gooseneck barnacles, are filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_barnacle
Acorn barnacle videos, photos and facts - Semibalanus balanoides - ARKive

Learn more about the Acorn barnacle - with amazing Acorn barnacle videos, photos and facts on ARKive
http://www.arkive.org/acorn-barnacle/semibalanus-balanoides/
Barnacles Are Accidentally Eating Our Plastic Trash

Scientists discovered microplastic in one third of gooseneck barnacles hanging out in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
http://grist.org/news/barnacles-are-accidentally-eating-our-plastic-trash/
Absurd Creature of the Week: The Barnacle That Invades Crabs in a Not OK Way

This is one of the most disturbing and wildly complex parasitizations in the animal kingdom.
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-rhizocephalan
Barnacles - Chesapeake Bay Program

About barnicles; their appearance, habitat, range and feeding with embedded videos and as they relate to Chesapeake Bay
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/fieldguide/critter/barnacles
Barnacle (Cirripedia) - Animals - A-Z Animals

General information and taxonomy of barnacles from A-Z Animals
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/barnacle/
Barnacle - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

A barnacle is a type of arthropod constituting the infraclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea, and is hence related to crabs and lobsters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle

Goose barnacle

Pollicipes pollicipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Thecostraca
Subclass:	Cirripedia
Infraclass:	Thoracica
Order:	Pedunculata Lamarck, 1818

Source : Wikipedia under CC-BY-SA license

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Barnacles

Barnacles are marine crustaceans of the class Maxillopoda. They are best known for attaching to other surfaces, including whales and ships.

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