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Diane Putnam

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Posted: 29 Jan 2018

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Goose barnacles (thanks, Fratton!)

Goose barnacles (thanks, Fratton!)
I thought maybe gaper clams or a couple of other possibilities, but I can't find any with that strange shell. I guess the fringe thing hanging down is the dried gill. Or, maybe they aren't clams...

Thanks to Fratton Parker, who identified these as goose barnacles! They look somewhat nicer when they aren't dead and dried out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9rNokrJFu8

Daughter-in-law's photo. Cape Blanco, Oregon.

Gudrun, M♥rJ Photogr♥phy !! ( Marj ), Martine, and 15 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Cheryl Beal
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Wow how fascinating. They're huge.....our barnacles are teeeeeeny weeeeeny!!
6 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
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We have those, too. You have goose barnacles now, you just didn't know it. www.q8india.com/blog/2017/08/27/tentacled-mystery-creature-just-bushel-barnacles/page/4

Our Pacific Northwest is having more "invasions" of these. I did some reading about them. They originate in tropical/sub-tropical coasts and attach themselves to flotsam, so they can float all over the world. Presumably, they die if they get too far north.
6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.
 M♥rJ Photogr♥phy !! ( Marj )
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Great find & photo ....!!!!
6 years ago.

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