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n. - A subclass of crustaceans including the barnacles and goose barnacles.

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  • Meanwhile Darwin had been carrying on a great research on the very peculiar order of crustacea, termed Cirripedia, better known as barnacles and acorn shells.
  • Which creature is being described here: "Any of various marine crustaceans of the subclass Cirripedia that, as adults, live attached to rocks, ship bottoms, etc."?
  • In October, 1846, I began to work on 'Cirripedia.'
  • On the other hand in the Nauplii of the Cirripedia and
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