Common Goose Barnacles

Five large smooth calcareous plates typical. Attached to floating objects such as driftwood, buoys or the hull of ships by its dark wrinkly stalk. They may also cover sea turtles. In medieval times, people thought that ducks hatch from them.

Cosmopolitan in warmer seas.

Attached to floating objects such as driftwood, buoys or the hull of ships by its dark wrinkly stalk. They may also cover sea turtles.