gooseneck barnacle

English

gooseneck barnacles

Noun

gooseneck barnacle (plural gooseneck barnacles)

1. Any of the species Pollicipes pollicipes or its close relatives, filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone, with a long and muscular stalk, which is edible and considered a delicacy in several Mediterranean countries.

   Synonym: goose barnacle

2. Any barnacle in the superseded order Pedunculata, now all or most of infraclass Thoracica, most of which are filter-feeders that attach to surfaces by a long stalk, though some are parasites.

Translations

Pollicipes pollicipes

• Dutch: eendenmossel (nl) f
• Finnish: hanhenkaula
• Galician: percebe (gl) m
• German: Entenmuschel (de) f
• Italian: lepade f
• Spanish: percebe (es) m

See also

• goose barnacle
• barnacle goose

Further reading

• Pollicipes pollicipes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pollicipes pollicipes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pollicipes pollicipes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons