Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces - cirriped, cirripede
European goose smaller than the brant; breeds in the far north - barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis
Derived forms: barnacles
Type of: crustacean, goose
Part of: Branta, Cirripedia, genus Branta, subclass Cirripedia