Range Hand Ordinary barnacles (Lepas anatifera) find regularly on the beach. Long steal attach them

Along the coast westerly always makes for great finds on the beach. The hard southwesterly of 17 and 18 August yield Texel so many exciting washed up. There was a flood line of algae in different types, sand dollar beach ca crates, floats and other plastic waste with all attached sea creatures. Many stranded material was covered with barnacles; on closer inspection it turned out even three different varieties.
Lobster-like Barnacles resemble shells, sand dollar beach ca but his family of crabs, lobsters and barnacles. You will see that when they look for food in the water. The shell parts open and a fan-shaped hand tool comes out, to filter food from the water, like barnacles.
Range Hand Ordinary barnacles (Lepas anatifera) find regularly on the beach. Long steal attach themselves firmly to floating objects in strong winds and rinse it anyway. Ecomaremedewerkster Sytske Dijksen took some barnacles home to photograph the range hands. Barnacles participated and raised their little fans out. On closer look, there appeared another instance between sit with a transparent little fan and a different form; a pleated barnacle (Dosima sand dollar beach ca fascicularis). On a crate she found later a copy of the raw barnacle (Lepas pectinata). sand dollar beach ca So you can safely say that 2014 is a good year barnacles.
Foam Buoy last spring flooded thousands of tiny juveniles of the pleated barnacle to the Dutch beaches. As a young animal sand dollar beach ca attach themselves, sand dollar beach ca like other barnacles, stuck to everything they encounter. Once they are making these barnacles adult however own flotation bladder, a kind of firm foam buoy which they float along the surface, sometimes by the millions. This specimen was 27 millimeters long and mature, but had nestled between ordinary barnacles. An exception.
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