Embed Northern Rock Barnacle - Semibalanus balanoides

Northern Rock Barnacle - Semibalanus balanoides Barnacles are sessile filter feeders. The use feathery, thoracic appendages, called cirri, to capture plankton and detritus from the water column. 

When there is a current, the barnacles hold their cirri stiffly into the flow. But, when there is no current, the barnacles pulse their cirri rhythmically, in and out of their shell. Their cirri are also used as gills to extract oxygen from the water.

Habitat: Encrusted on rocks and starting to feed again as the tide was starting to come back in.

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