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Name:
Spondylus spec. & Balanus spec.
Common name:
Balanus spec. → Barnacle
Spondylus spec. → Spiny oysters, Thorny oysters
Family / Genus / Binom / Author:
Spondylidae → Spondylus → Spondylus spec. → Linnaeus, 1758
Balanidae → Balanus → Balanus spec. → Da Costa, 1778
Protection status:
Location:
Bohol, Philippines / Indo-Pacific
Size of the item:
Width: 13 cm
Length: 34 cm
Size of the specimen:
Weight:
Every hard bottom of tropical waters is colonized in a short time by the mostly free-swimming larvae of various otherwise sessile organisms, and this is how such interesting communities can form.