DETAILS
- Discipline
NH: ZOOLOGY: INVERTEBRATES: CRUSTACEANS (CRABS, LOBSTER, SHRIMP, WOODLICE)
- Scientific Name
Balanus
- Common Name
Barnacle
- Date Collected
1957
- Place Collected
Argentina, Patagonia, north of Cabo Virgenes, (place collected)
- Age
adult
- Form
dried
- Description
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These large dried acorn barnacles were collected from Patagonia, Argentina in 1957.
Acorn barnacles are the familiar barnacles found encrusting rocks, piers, boats and potentially any hard structure in the sea. They also manage to live on the skins of large baleen whales. Larvae are released into the water to swim around until they find a place to settle at which point they anchor themselves to the substrate and start to make hard plates to surround and protect their bodies. They feed by extruding their feathery legs and catching plankton and food particles from the water.
They are part of the R.P. Scase collection which consists of more than 15,000 shells and other animals collected over many years from all over the world. - ID Number
Z.1993.76.8142
- Location
In storage
- Terms