Barnacles are shellfish that cling to rocks or ships hulls.
Yes, "as rough as the barnacles" is a simile. It compares the roughness of something to the rough texture of barnacles using the word "as."
Barnacles are marine life that infests a ship or boat, so to put this in a sentence, you want to use it as a noun or object The barnacles clung to the bottom of my ship.
Barnacles are crustaceans( a type of arthropods)
"The underside of the boat was encrusted with barnacles after being in water from spring to fall."
commensalism
The answer is Benthos, Nekton would mean it's free swimming like a fish.
There are more than 1,000 different species of barnacles.
Barnacles protect themselves by sticking to something sturdy.
Barnacles live only in salt water.
An example of commensalism is the relationship between barnacles and whales. Barnacles attach themselves to the skin of whales and benefit by getting a free ride through the water and access to nutrients. The whales are not significantly affected by the presence of the barnacles.
The things that eat acorn barnacles are whelks which arte sea snails, mussels and some starfish all eat of feed on barnacles
You can remove dried barnacles from a fiberglass boat using a stainless steel scrubber or a pressure washer for large barnacles.