Any of a majority of the 1,000 species of the subclass Cirripedia of marine crustaceans that, as adults, are covered with a shell made of hard calcium-containing plates and are permanently cemented, head down, to rocks, pilings, ships' hulls, driftwood, or seaweed or to the bodies of larger sea creatures, from clams to whales. Barnacles trap tiny particles of food with their cirri, feathery retractable organs that emerge from openings between the shell plates. Adult barnacles commonly are hermaphrodites.
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Barnacles live only in salt water.
Yes, barnacles are filter feeders. They use their feathery legs to capture tiny particles in the water, such as plankton, and then bring them to their mouth to eat. This is how they obtain nutrients to survive.
Limpets and barnacles are both marine organisms that live in intertidal zones. They both have a hard shell or exoskeleton that protects them from predators and desiccation. Additionally, they are both filter feeders, consuming food particles from the surrounding water.
Barnacles on a crab's shell improve its toughness, while the barnacles (normally lacking motility) are able to visit more than one location to obtain food, and may even feed on the crab's prey. Some barnacles, however, can cause damage or sterility in some species of crabs.
Commensalism is a type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed. A classic example is barnacles attaching themselves to the shell of a turtle; the barnacles gain a place to live and access to food in the water, while the turtle remains unaffected by their presence.
Barnacles live only in salt water.
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Barnacles live in the sea.
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I have seen mussels attached to oysters and barnacles.
They on a rocky surface in salt water and eat plankton.
Both crabs and barnacles have claws and also both shed their external skeleton, the limpets do not.
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Yes, barnacles are filter feeders. They use their feathery legs to capture tiny particles in the water, such as plankton, and then bring them to their mouth to eat. This is how they obtain nutrients to survive.