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Close-up imagery showing barnacles covering sulphur structures on KawioBarat volcano. Their tentacles, or 'cirri', extended like blooming flowers, then folded back into the shell. The white fluff on the cirri are filaments ofbacteria that grow in the passing vent water. The barnacles hold them out toimprove growth then, apparently, withdraw to 'lick their fingers'.
Credit
NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010, NOAA/OER
Display Date
2010 June 30
Location
Indonesia, Kawio Barat
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Index 2010
Keywords
Ocean Exploration