kef1630
eco3
This picture was taken on the last weekend in January at the Albemarle sound in Newport NC. The bay barnacle (Amphibalanus improvises) seen here in the picture was everywhere, on the dock, sailboats and even covering other life forms like the what I believe is the Mya arenaria Mollusk. The Bay barnacle is found in immense numbers on the western Atlantic cost and even up in the surrounding sounds. Its is a filter feed and is a secondary consumer eating on zooplankton, phytoplankton and cyanobacteria found in the water column. The bay barnacle is often found attached to bivalve shells and dead mollusk. The Bay Barnacle is “one of the most successful aquatic invaders worldwide”. It is a powerful interspecies competitor by taking up the most space or territory.
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Mercenaria_mercenaria/#geogr...
www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/91903
eco3
This picture was taken on the last weekend in January at the Albemarle sound in Newport NC. The bay barnacle (Amphibalanus improvises) seen here in the picture was everywhere, on the dock, sailboats and even covering other life forms like the what I believe is the Mya arenaria Mollusk. The Bay barnacle is found in immense numbers on the western Atlantic cost and even up in the surrounding sounds. Its is a filter feed and is a secondary consumer eating on zooplankton, phytoplankton and cyanobacteria found in the water column. The bay barnacle is often found attached to bivalve shells and dead mollusk. The Bay Barnacle is “one of the most successful aquatic invaders worldwide”. It is a powerful interspecies competitor by taking up the most space or territory.
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Mercenaria_mercenaria/#geogr...
www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/91903