Barnacles belong to which of the following groups of invertebrates?

a. crustaceans
b. mollusks
c. annelids
d. chelicerates
e. brachiopods


A; Barnacles are a type of crustacean. They have adapted to a life of filter feeding, and have become sessile and protected by a shell, but it does not resemble the shell of either filter-feeding mollusks (choice b) or brachiopods (choice e).

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