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Uncommon card · Nature
Goose barnacle, an Uncommon card
Goose barnacles or stalked barnacles are any of several species of filter-feeding crustaceans characterized by a fleshy stalk of which one end is connected to an armored capitulum and the other end is used by the animal to attach to substrates such as intertidal rocks, flotsam or larger animals.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 59
- DEF
- 44
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
Goose barnacle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Goose barnacle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The closely related P. ______ is known in its North American range as gooseneck or leaf barnacle.
Answer
polymerus. The closely related P. polymerus is known in its North American range as gooseneck or leaf barnacle. From the Goose barnacle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Botfly. Botfly 240,000 · Goose barnacle 130,000 · Kunlun Mountains 94,000 · White-fronted ground tyrant 360 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Their resemblance of appendages of other species has earned this form of barnacle an array of common names.
- In Iberia, the species Pollicipes pollicipes is culinarily important and is called percebes, derived from the Early Medieval Latin words for thumb and foot.
- The closely related P. polymerus is known in its North American range as gooseneck or leaf barnacle.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Goose barnacle article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 59 and blocks with 44: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get Goose barnacle
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Goose barnacle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
