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Stalked barnacle

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Stalked barnacle

These barnacles (Calantica spinosa) at Kaikōura attach themselves to tidal rocks with their tough, wrinkled stalk.

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Niel Bruce and Alison MacDiarmid, Crabs, rock lobsters and other crustaceans – Barnacles and copepods, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/8248/stalked-barnacle (accessed 20 June 2026).

Story by Niel Bruce and Alison MacDiarmid, published 2 March 2009.