FAMILY : HETERALEPADIDAE
Paralepas quadrata (Aurivillius, 1894) ?

These barnacles were found in large numbers on the cast off shell of a lobster.
Paralepas quadrata is epizoic on crabs and lobster. Epizoic is defined as living or
growing on the external surface of an animal. Also known as a fouling species,
the animals below found covering an empty plastic oil container.

Below.. on the crab Atergatis floridus