Unidentified Lepas sp. - Goose Barnacles on Pumice Stone, Slaughter Bay Beach, Kingston, Norfolk Island

Family : Lepadidae

ID assistance to species level appreciated.

Lepas anatifera or Lepas pectinata maybe. Most of the mapped Encyclopaedia of Life records in the region are reduced to just Lepas sp. Lepas pectinata is associated with pumice rafts in the region.

These barnacles have hitchiked a ride on this pumice stone which has washed up on this sheltered beach at Kingston on Norfolk Island. The bay/beach is known as Slaughter Bay.

It’s name is not as ominous as it sounds as The name Slaughter in this case apparently came from the Anglo-Saxon words "slough" meaning wet land and "slohtre" a muddy place or from the name of their Norman landowners, the d’Schlotre family.

There are lots of these barnacles often attached to pumice stones which are plentiful on the beaches of Norfolk Island.

More Norfolk Island images HERE

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Taken in: Norfolk Island (show map)

Taken on: May 19, 2013

Tags:

Lepas

Lepas sp.

Lepadidae

barnacle

barnacles

Arthropod

Unidentified arthropods

Australia

Kingston

NSW

Norfolk Island

Slaughter Bay

Slaughter Bay Beach

bivalve

Unidentified sp.

pumice

pumice stone

Marine Life

shells

aphyric pumice

Unidentified barnacles

goose barnacles

taxonomy:binomial=Lepas sp.

taxonomy:kingdom=Animalia

Animalia

taxonomy:phylum=Arthropoda

Arthropoda

taxonomy:subphylum=Crustacea

Crustacea

taxonomy:class=Maxillopoda

Maxillopoda

taxonomy:subclass=Copepoda

Copepoda

taxonomy:order=Pedunculata

Pedunculata

taxonomy:suborder=Lepadomorpha

Lepadomorpha

taxonomy:family=Lepadidae

taxonomy:genus=Lepas

taxonomy:common=Goose Barnacles

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