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Common Goose Barnacles
Lepas anatifera
NENot evaluated
Overview
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.
Distribution
Cosmopolitan in warmer seas.
Habitat
Attached to floating objects such as driftwood, buoys or the hull of ships by its dark wrinkly stalk. They may also cover sea turtles.
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