Close-up imagery showing barnacles covering sulphur structures on Kawio Barat volcano. Their tentacles, or ‘cirri’, extended like blooming flowers, then folded back into the shell. The white fluff on the cirri are filaments of bacteria that grow in the passing vent water. The barnacles hold them out to improve growth then, apparently, withdraw to ‘lick their fingers’.
Photo Category: Ocean exploration
Photo Location: Indonesia, Kawio Barat
Photo Date: 2010 June 30
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