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1. Jul 31,  · Barnacles (balanus glandula) are sticky little crustaceans related to crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. Those aren't dragon claws—they're gooseneck barnacles! These filter feeders are found in the rocky tide pools of Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

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2. Barnacle, also called cirripede, any of more than 1, predominantly marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia highly modified for sedentary life. There are about free-living species (all marine) and about species that are internal parasites of crabs and other crustaceans. A brief treatment of cirripedes follows.

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3. 2 [from a popular belief that the goose grew from the crustacean]: any of numerous marine crustaceans (subclass Cirripedia) with feathery appendages for gathering food that are free-swimming as larvae but permanently fixed (as to rocks, boat hulls, or whales) as adults.

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4. Oct 15,  · Skin barnacles are benign growths that develop on the skin of people as they age. Skin barnacles are also called seborrheic keratoses. They develop mostly on your chest or back. But they can appear anywhere on your body.

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5. Jul 24,  · Barnacles is in Tanglewood Resort. For a quick bite to eat, I highly recommend a panini. Any panini. Or a salad. Or a hamburger. Great place to chill with friends watching sports and having a 4/5(51).

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6. Removing barnacles from a fiberglass hull is a strenuous, time-consuming job. The sooner you remove barnacles, the less time they have to grow and multiply, so get on it! The fewer the barnacles, the less likelihood there is of damaging the hull while removing them.

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7. Seborrheic keratosis is a dermatologic condition characterized by wart-like growths that may appear anywhere on the skin, except a person's palms and soles. Seborrheic keratoses can vary in appearance, but are typically light tan to dark brown, round, and have a waxy or warty stuck-on-the-skin appearance.

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8. A barnacle is a cirripede, a kind of crustacean. It is covered with hard plates of calcium carbonate, and lives stuck to hard surfaces. It does not look like a crustacean, and for many centuries it was thought to be a mollusc. In the s, J.V. Thompson found their larvae, and followed their development through to Class: Maxillopoda.

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9. Barnacles feed on planktonthey sweep from the water with their fan-like feet. Their main predators are whelks--snails that envelop the barnacle's cone and force the valves open. The blue musselis a competitor for space, possibly outgrowing and smothering barnacles. Excessive growth of the algae rockweedcan also overpower a colony of barnacles.

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