| This is the first image taken of this variety of gooseneck barnacle at Race Rocks. On the tidal energy generator which was removed in 2011. Two clumps of these barnacles were collected from a join in the housing materials. In Lamb and Hanby, Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest, they state the following:
"---Nakwakto goose-neck barnacle, a large and coourful variation of the goose neck barnacle found inNakwakto Rapids, Slingsby Channel, BC. The glorious red colour is actually the hemoglobin in the barnacle's blood. The blood is obvious in subtidal specimens like these which do not have black pigment that protects the sun-exposed populations inhabiting shallow or intertidal zones. Familiar to an ever-increasing number of recreational divers, the unique and isolated population must be preserved via a No-Take Marine Protected Area."
Link to the regular taxonomy and image file for Pollicepes polymerus
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