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Goose Barnacle

Crustaceans

Goose barnacles, also called stalked barnacles, are filter-feeding crustaceans with a fleshy stalk, one end connected to an armored capitulum and the other used to attach to substrates such as intertidal rocks, flotsam or larger animals. Their resemblance to the appendages of other creatures has earned them many regional names: in Iberia the species Pollicipes pollicipes is culinarily important and called percebes, the closely related Pollicipes polymerus is known in North America as the gooseneck or leaf barnacle, and Capitulum mitella, eaten in Asia, is called the turtle hand barnacle in Japan.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Filter Feeder 1
System (Realm)
Marine 2
Relationship to People
Hunted or Fished 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 3
Partially Attested
Scientific Name
Pedunculata 1
Pedunculata is the order goose barnacles were traditionally grouped in; the source says research found the group polyphyletic, so it is not a current valid taxon.
Identification
Distinguishing Appearance
Fleshy stalk with one end connected to an armored capitulum and the other end attached to substrates 1
Comparison
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 4
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Arthropoda, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Goose Barnacle
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Norway

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Goose barnacle
  • Classification
    They had been grouped into the taxonomic order Pedunculata
  • Lead, sentence 1
    characterized by a fleshy stalk of which one end is connected to an armored capitulum
  • As food
    A larger species (P. polymerus) was also exported from Canada, until the Department of Fisheries and Oceans closed this fishery on 31 May 1999.
  • Wikipedia article, diet description
    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.
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2. GBIF Species API
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3. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ3689, descriptionView the Source
4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Animalia
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 23
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 23
"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Animals","language":"EN"},{"name":"Fauna","language":"EN"},{"name":"Animaux","language":"FR"}],"cites_listings":[]
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Wikidata: Goose Barnacle
  • Wikidata Q3689, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Child Taxon Of: Arthropoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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