Barnacle

Octolasmis cor

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

This small goose barnacle lives attached by a fleshy stalk in shallow sublittoral water, often riding the gills and shells of crabs and other larger animals. It feeds by combing plankton and drifting particles from the water with feathery legs.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Thecostraca › Scalpellomorpha › Poecilasmatidae › Octolasmis

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 212921.