goose barnacle

Goose barnacles or stalked barnacles are any of several species of filter-feeding crustaceans characterized by a fleshy stalk of which one end is connected to an armored capitulum and the other end is used by the animal to attach to substrates such as intertidal rocks, flotsam or larger animals. Their resemblance of appendages of other species has earned this form of barnacle an array of common names. In Iberia, the species Pollicipes pollicipes is culinarily important and is called percebes (sing.

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