Talk:Barnacle Goose
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>The English name of this species, and the scientific name of the Brent goose B. bernicla, come from the old fable that barnacle geese were produced from barnacles (Lepadidae), molluscs that grow on timber exposed to salt water.<
Correction: Barnacles are not mollusks, as they do not belong to phylum Mollusca. They are instead members of phylum Arthropoda (clas Crustacea). Their clam-like appearance baffled zoologists until famous 19th century Swiss-American zoologist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz said that a barnacle is "nothing more than a little shrimp-like animal, standing on its head in a limestone house and kicking food into its mouth."
The taxonomical classification for Barnacles: phylum Arthropoda class Crustacea subclass Cirripedia order Thoracica family Lepadidae.
SOURCE: Life, The Science of Biology (6th Edition) by Purves, Sadava, Orians & Heller
