FAMILY : BALANIDAE
Neocasta laevigata (Gray, 1825)?


Several of these barnacles were found in dead sponges, cast up onto the beach a few weeks
after Cyclone Alfred. Nearly all were damaged but surprisingly still alive after being pounded
on the beach in torrential rain


Above..sperm being released from penis.




 

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