Barnacle

Barnacle

 

Common Name: Acorn Barnacle

Description: Shape and size - Gets up tp 8 millimeters in diameter, and the shell is brown - grey colour

Skeleton - Exoskeleton

Symmetry - Asymmetrical

Features - They have pink, claw - like feet called "cirri" come out of the barnacles when feeding. Barnacles range from Alaska to Mexico.

Taxonomy:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Maxillopoda

Order: Sessilia

Family: Balanidae

Genus: Balanus

Species: Nubilus

Ecology: Relationship to other organisms - They attach themselves to other marine life, and rocks. Also, they feed on small floating organisms.

Interesting Features - The male and female barnacles have both sex organs, and they breathe through their feet!