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Goose Barnacles

Pollicipes pollicipes

Description:

spanish name: percebe

Habitat:

see cliffs

Notes:

In Portugal and Spain, they are a widely consumed and expensive delicacy known as percebes. Percebes are harvested commercially in the northern coast, mainly in Galicia, and are also imported from overseas, particularly from Morocco and Canada.

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5 Comments

arlanda
arlanda 11 years ago

It could be but I did not see any

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 11 years ago

Arland,there must be lichen around it?

arlanda
arlanda 12 years ago

Just added to Biodiversidad en España/Spain mission

eulalia rubio
eulalia rubio 12 years ago

Están para comérselos. Sólo nosotros, los de la península Ibérica, sabemos lo difícil que es cogerlos, por lo tanto también lo habrá sido el hacer las fotos. Felicidades.

Meik
Meik 12 years ago

Beautiful composition!

arlanda
Spotted by
arlanda

Ribadeo, Galicia/Galiza, Spain

Spotted on Jun 13, 2011
Submitted on Jun 13, 2011

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