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These are almost always found on floating logs or debris.
These ones somehow dried up with the feeding legs out. I have never seen the ...
Goose barnacles, spotted at Motunau beach, ...
This was the only one of its kind that I found. Most of the other
These barnacles have a stalk, or "neck", ...
Tide pools at Scripps Beach in San Diego
Saw these in the Gerstle Cove State Marine Reserve tide pools at Salt Point ...
Found in Hurricane Island's intertidal zone, presumably blown in from a storm ...
Masses of small crustacean attached to a length of bamboo washed up on the tide
These were in the rocky crevices along the western coast of San Juan Island. ...
Hundreds of this little creature found attached on a piece of polystyrene by ...
Very plentiful at this beach. They seemed to thrive here amongst the mussels ...
When I touched it it slowly recoiled.
). Each group reminds me of a striking bouquet of flowers. The first photo ...
Lepas anatifera, commonly known as the pelagic
Filter feeders which live on flotsam - objects that float in the sea. Depend on ...
Similar to the barnacle. The peduncle is ...
calcareous plates corresponding with the plates that protect an acorn
Black and tan mussel. The shell has lines that seem to go both horizontal and ...
Marine crustacean with four movable plates, when open, serve as doors for the ...
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Cirripedia Order: Thoracica ...
, the barnacle has a head and thorax and ...
