Southern Goose Barnacle

Lepas australis

• Group: Other

The southern goose barnacle rides the open ocean attached to anything that floats, from drifting kelp and pumice to plastic and even the skin of elephant seals. Hanging head down from its stalk, it combs passing plankton out of the water with feathery limbs.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Thecostraca › Scalpellomorpha › Lepadidae › Lepas

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 733349.