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Title: Mussel Colony, UK
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A colony of blue musselsm (Mytilus edulis), surrounded by acorn barnacles and common limpets (Patella vulgata), exposed at low tide. Duckpool, Bude, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. British Isles. North East Atlantic Ocean.
- acorn barnacle (unidentified)
- Bivalves: Bivalvia: Pelecypoda
- blue mussel: Mytilus edulis
- Bristol Channel
- British Isles
- Bude
- common limpet: Patella vulgata
- Cornwall
- Duckpool
- England
- Gastropods: Gastropoda
- Invertebrates
- Limpets: Patellidae
- Marine Life
- Mollusks: Mollusca
- Prosobranchia
- UK
- United Kingdom
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