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Little Brown Barnacle

Chthamalus dalli

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) adamse3, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

United States	830
California	637
Canada	426
British Columbia	426
Washington	167
Oregon	26
Alaska	3

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Barnacles and Copepods · Hexanauplia
Order	Symmetrical Sessile Barnacles · Balanomorpha
Family	Chthamalid Barnacles · Chthamalidae
Genus	Chthamalus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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