Goose Barnacle

Lepas pectinata

• Group: Other

A goose barnacle that rafts across the open ocean attached to buoys, drifting wood and other floating debris at the surface. It filters plankton with feathery legs and turns up worldwide as a fouling animal on anything adrift.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 733358.