Filter feeding appendage (cirri) from a goose barnacle, SEM

  • Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
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Filter feeding appendage (cirri) from a goose barnacle, SEM. Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Scanning electron micrograph of a filter feeding appendage (cirri) from a goose barnacle (Lepas). Goose barnacles are non-motile crustaceans that live in the sea attached to rocks and floating objects (such as driftwood) by a long flexible stalk (peduncle). They use their cirri like a sieve to filter water to collect food. Horizontal image width is 5 mm.

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