but the remainder was thickly encrusted with grub like life about 8c.m.
long 1.5c.ms. thick, with >worm like body and of jelly like composition. On
the end was a beak with a hardshell like a pippi. Those animals still alive
>were waving around, and were a pinkish colour, but many appeared to be
already dead and were a blackish colour. Can you help as >to what the life
may be?
Sounds like goose-barnacles to me (but I don't have anything to look up
with me at work so can't provide any more info). Goose-barnacles are an
aberrant form of crustacean (crabs, prawns, slaters, beach-hoppesrs etc).
Harvey
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Dr Harvey D. Perkins
School of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
ph +61 2 6125 2693; fax:+61 2 6125 0313
and:
Pest Animal Control Cooperative Research Centre
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