• Lepas is commonly known as the ‘Goose barnacle’ or ‘Ship barnacle’.

• Marine sessile animal.

• Body consists of a stalk and capitulum.

• Capitulum is the body.

• Body surrounded by mantle.

• Mantle is suspended by calcareous plates namely median carina, a paired scutum and tergum.

• Lepas has no antennae.

• Body is divisible into thorax and abdomen.