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a marine crustacean such as a barnacle, with feathery appendages for catching food
Darwin spent years studying cirripedes and their classification.
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cirripedes
Etymology
From Latin cirrus, "curl, tendril," plus pes, "foot," referring to the curled, feathery feeding appendages of barnacles and related marine crustaceans.