Picacho Barnacle

Jehlius cirratus

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A small barnacle that cements itself to bare rock and mollusc shells across the intertidal zone of cold southern shores. Once settled it never moves again, sweeping plankton from the water with feathery, rhythmically beating legs.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Thecostraca › Balanomorpha › Chthamalidae › Jehlius

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 1501521.