Barnacles belong to the crustaceans (shrimps, crabs, prawns, lobsters), are sessile suspension feeders and live at intertidal zones. They secrete a strong and hard glue to attach onto hard surfaces.
Love them because they are at beaches, hate them because they corrode ship bodies.
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