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• Barnacles on Flat Oyster shells

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 133
    If you can get to grips with the identification of acorn barnacles, sometimes called sessile barnacles, their presence on objects such as rocks and shells can tell you where these objects came from. Different barnacle species grow in different geographical locations. Different species also tend to live in a ...
  4 days ago

• Sponge borings in Flat Oyster shells

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 133
  Sponges are another type of marine organism which can be responsible for making holes in the shells of molluscs and in limestone or chalk rocks and pebbles. In earlier posts, the holes made by other sea creatures such as boring bivalved molluscs, and marine polychaete tube worms have been discussed. The type of ...
  2 weeks ago

• More clumped Flat Oyster shells

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 133
  Here are five views from different angles of a single clump of recent shells. The clump comprises five European Flat Oyster shells, from at least three generations, attached to each other. Oyster larvae or spat are free-swimming for the first two weeks of their life and then they must settle on a hard object or ...
  3 weeks ago

• Driftwood with holes made by Gribbles & Shipworms

  
  Jessica's Nature Blog — Authority: 133
  The photographs in this post show a small piece of water-logged driftwood about 30 cm long and riddled with holes and tunnels caused by two different types of wood-boring sea creatures. The larger borings are about 1 cm in diameter and many are lined with a smooth calcareous material that has become stained through ...
  3 weeks ago

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