Barnacle

Octolasmis angulata

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

A small goose barnacle that lives attached to other animals rather than bare rock, it rides on hosts in the shallow subtidal. Cemented in place head down, it combs the water with feathery legs to catch plankton and bits of detritus.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 535283.