1 - Marine - Fauna / Flora
Buoy-Making Barnacle
One of many hundreds of stranded barnacles on the beach , some still alive but most
desiccated and dead.
"Dosima Fasicularis " . Buoy - Making Barnacle , is a stalked barnacle that can either
attach to a piece of debris floating at the surface of the sea or in the absence of suitable
substrates can generate its own float. This float has a texture like polystyrene and usually
supports a small colony of barnacles by the time it washes up . Like other barnacles, it
bears plates (in this case five large ones) although the stalk is naked.
The shell plates are thin and papery.
Ref: 10297C
Date: 27/06/2012
Location: Freshwater West Beach
