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Tesseropora rosea

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Rose barnacles in Royal National Park

• ... that the picky rose barnacle (pictured) will only eat when the current is strong?
  • Source: [1]: "T. rosea feeds in different ways, extending the cirral fan only in response to the fast water currents. Thus, T. rosea cannot survive in areas with a low current velocity."
• ALT1: ... that rose barnacles (pictured) eat barnacle larvae?
  • Source: [2] "In adult T. rosea, the largest proportion by far of the gut contents comprised small crustaceans [...] A number of cirripede nauplii [...] were also present."
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5x expanded by Cremastra (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.

Cremastra (u — c) 21:45, 3 January 2025 (UTC).