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Barnacles and Their Significance in Biofouling

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Barnacles are among the “most-unwanted” by ship owners and those involved in the marine industry, especially people entrusted with maintaining marine structures as smooth as possible. Barnacles are arthropods, in the same major group as insects and spiders. They are closely related to crabs, prawns, and lobsters. The name barnacle has a curious origin. Its sudden appearance was similar to that of maggots which appear from nowhere on rotting meat. It was thought that barnacles would be in the ocean for a length of time and led people to believe that this organism also originated from the woods like the “Geese” (Arctic bird and a species of water fowl) presently known as barnacle goose, which breeds in the Arctic, a fact which was not known for long time. As no one ever witnessed the bird breeding, it was thought to spontaneously generate from trees along the shores or from rotting woods.

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Anil, A.C., Desai, D.V., Khandeparker, L., Gaonkar, C.A. (2012). Barnacles and Their Significance in Biofouling. In: Rajagopal, S., Jenner, H., Venugopalan, V. (eds) Operational and Environmental Consequences of Large Industrial Cooling Water Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1698-2_5

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